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Often Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.
- Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
- There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you…
- The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
- It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.
- The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably…
- Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.
- 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…
- A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no…
- The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only…
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