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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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

"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."

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

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

"There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."

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