10 quotes club: Nelson Mandela

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1. "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."


2. "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."


3. "No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."


4. "Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."


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


6. "As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."


7. "Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."


8. "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."


9. "Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves."


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


Nelson Mandela


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