Thursday, December 5, 2013

Another Hero Watching Over Us

Today the world lost another inspiration. Nelson Mandela passed away. I have many favorite quotes from him. Here are just a few...



"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."

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

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

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela. I will have this quote posted in my classroom one day.”

“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.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

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

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

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”

“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”


“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”

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