Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
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Nelson Mandela
South African anti-apartheid leader and first Black president (1918-2013). Sentenced to life for treason in 1964, he served 27 years on Robben Island, won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, and led the new democracy from 1994.
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Nelson Mandela's Other Quotes
It always seems impossible until it's done.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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