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I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.

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