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“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.”

Nelson Mandela · Peace

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Nelson Mandela

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Future

Nelson Mandela

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Time

Nelson Mandela

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

Society

Nelson Mandela

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.

Courage