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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Nelson Mandela

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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

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

— Nelson Mandela

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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. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Nelson Mandela

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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