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Very Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."
- To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is…
- My family is very large. 42 million.
- One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this…
- Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
- I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.
- The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic…
- Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they…
- To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
- A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have…
- I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
- Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but…
- When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics,…
- I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when…
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