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" If you are poor, you are not likely to live long. "
Nelson Mandela
Long
Live
Likely
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" I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. "
Nelson Mandela
Training
Fight
War
" In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. "
Nelson Mandela
Age
White
Process
" Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. "
Nelson Mandela
Communism
Fight
Freedom
" 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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Walk
Death
Us
" Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. "
Nelson Mandela
Good
Nonviolence
Policy
" If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. "
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Partner
Enemy
You
" Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. "
Nelson Mandela
Life
Future
Government
" Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. "
Nelson Mandela
Life
Challenge
Enjoy
" My son has died of AIDS. "
Nelson Mandela
Died
Son
AIDS
" I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. "
Nelson Mandela
Socialism
System
Tie
" There is no such thing as part freedom. "
Nelson Mandela
Part
Thing
Freedom
" I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color. "
Nelson Mandela
Men
Proud
Feel
" The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. "
Nelson Mandela
World
Effort
Africa
" Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. "
Nelson Mandela
AIDS
Give
Love
" There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. "
Nelson Mandela
Society
Development
Men
" If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. "
Nelson Mandela
Roads
Dreams
Beautiful
" Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. "
Nelson Mandela
Training
Discipline
Competition
" By ancestry, I was born to rule. "
Nelson Mandela
Ancestry
I Was Born
Born
" I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife. "
Nelson Mandela
Know
Sight
Love
" The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. "
Nelson Mandela
Made
Long
Decisions
" It always seems impossible until it's done. "
Nelson Mandela
Motivational
Done
Impossible
" I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. "
Nelson Mandela
Me
Wake Up
Up
" 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. "
Nelson Mandela
Justice
Life
Soul
" 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. "
Nelson Mandela
Fear
Poor
Nothing
" Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. "
Nelson Mandela
Beautiful
Land
History
" We can't afford to be killing one another. "
Nelson Mandela
Another
Afford
" Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. "
Nelson Mandela
Money
Success
Will
" As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. "
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Poverty
Long
Injustice
" The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. "
Nelson Mandela
Life
Me
Opportunity
" There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. "
Nelson Mandela
Soul
Society
Revelation