Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
From Nelson Mandela
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
We can't afford to be killing one another.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
You know, you can only lead them from behind.
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