Freedom Quote by Nelson Mandela

““We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom. Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 10, 1993””

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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

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

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What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we…

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not…

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We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:…

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