Mandela S Quotes

• I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

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  Rory McIlroy

  Believe   Leader   Forgiving  

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

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  Barack Obama

  Commitment   Democracy   Steps  

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• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

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  Maya Angelou

  Leadership   Wisdom   Country  

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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• The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from prison. I was amazed by his humility and his great sense of leadership... Mandela's character has shaped my life.

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  Joyce Banda

  Character   Humility   President  

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• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Fear   Book   Mean  

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• As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

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  Salil Shetty

  Leader   World   Injustice  

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• Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

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  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring   Men   Long Walks  

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• Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

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  Henry Rollins

  Country   Men   Faces  

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• Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.

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  Francois Hollande

  Rights   People   Giving  

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• I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

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  George W. Bush

  President   Alive   Former  

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• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

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  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty   People   President  

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