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.


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NELSON MANDELA
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some polit...
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We owe this to the countless men, women and children across generations who carried this anthem in t...
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Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books,
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said Nic Buchanan, the creator of the comic books. ''They don't know their own history. We celebrate...
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But I'd like to declare that, when we have differed on an issue, at the end of that my respect for h...
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A visit to this country by President Clinton is the high water mark.
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He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through th...
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be ...
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During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought aga...
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The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-viol...
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There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measur...
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society.
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I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the ...
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Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
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The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That...
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Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been co...
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I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I w...
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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of ...
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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have cons...
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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then w...
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I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest among that generation of great freedom fighters.
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That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because th...
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There is no such thing as part freedom
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The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,...
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When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my f...
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The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye co...
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True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
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Courage is not a lack of fear, but instead is continuing to push forward in spite of it!
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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...
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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my ...
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