In Mandela's Words

Famous quotes from world renowned political leader Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela Health Scare - Late in the week, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for routine tests, which resulted in growing speculation from the media about his health and a public outpouring of support. He spent two nights in the hospital before he was released. Doctors say he suffered a respiratory infection. His foundation has reported receiving thousands of notes for well wishes, including one from President Obama.

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Quotes - If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Quotes - Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.

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Quotes - Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.

Quotes - 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.

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Quotes - 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.

Quotes - I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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Quotes - I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Quotes - We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

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Quotes - We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

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Quotes - Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

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Quotes - Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Birthday Party! - Nelson Mandela is getting hooked up with some serious tunes on the evening of Friday, June 27. A three and a half hour concert to celebrate his 90th birthday will take place in London's Hyde Park. Check out the link below to see pictures of who’ll be at the party.

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Quotes - Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Quotes - The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Quotes - The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Quotes - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

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Quotes - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Quotes - There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

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Quotes - There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

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Quotes - After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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Quotes - After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Quotes - In my country we go to prison first and then become president.

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Quotes - In my country we go to prison first and then become president.

Quotes - During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

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Quotes - During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.