Human heart Quote by Nelson Mandela

““People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.””

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“I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king,”

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