Ten quotes from Nelson Mandela on the day he would have celebrated his 100th anniversary. It is one of the most remarkable man of our lifetime.
“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”
“One of the challenges of our time, without being pietistic or moralistic, is to re-instil in the consciousness of our people that sense of human solidarity, of being in the world for one another and because of and through others.”
“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,”
“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles,”
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion,”
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others,”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear,”
“A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones,”
“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.”
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Re: Quotes Nelson Mandela (born 100years ago)
"Prison straight up suuucks" - Nelson Mandela (probably)
Joking aside, happy birthday to a true civil rights icon of our times.
Joking aside, happy birthday to a true civil rights icon of our times.
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A complicated man.
Mandela did great things. But many of his supporters in the West now use that greatness to wash clean his record of political violence - and his support for dictators who'd used it.
Mandela did great things. But many of his supporters in the West now use that greatness to wash clean his record of political violence - and his support for dictators who'd used it.
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VTKillarney wrote:A complicated man.
Mandela did great things. But many of his supporters in the West now use that greatness to wash clean his record of political violence - and his support for dictators who'd used it.
What of the government and political violence he was fighting? Was it "complicated" too?