27 years in jail, 5 years as President of South Africa, 93 years to prove there is no black and white. Respect & birthday wishes to Nelson Mandela. Close to 12 million students sang “Happy Birthday” to Mandela before school began on his birthday.
Here are some of his best quotes:
- Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- 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.
- It always seems impossible until its done.
- Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- 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.
- After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. 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.
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Mandela Day
Mandela Day on 18 July is an annual international day adopted by the United Nations. Individuals, communities and organisations are asked to donate 67 minutes to doing something for others, commemorating the 67 years that Nelson Mandela gave to the struggle for social justic
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