There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.
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.
The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.
Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.
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