Long Walk To Freedom Quotes - Page 2

• There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Peace, Fall

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.178, Pan Macmillan

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• Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moving, Optimistic, Feet

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Equality

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Distance, Taken

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Hate, Heart

  1994 LongWalk to Freedom.

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• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Long Walks, Climbing

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Humanity, Oppressed

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Peace, People

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.404, Hachette UK

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• I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wells, Oppressed, Liberated

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2016

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• I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  "Nelson Mandela memorial: Barack Obama's speech in full". www.cnn.com. December 10, 2013.

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• I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Commitment, Fighting

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• I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Positive, Sunshine, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Success, Daughter, Children

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Jan 11, 2017

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• Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Trying, Dignity

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

  Nelson Mandela

  Daughter, Doctors, Peasants

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2016

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

  Nelson Mandela

  Authority, Balanced, Diets

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Motivational, Exercise, Keys

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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• A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

  Nelson Mandela

  Prison, Missions, Oppressed

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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