"May your choices reflect your hopes, not..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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“My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.”
“Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.”
“Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.”
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“A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
“Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”
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“Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind”
“Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”
“Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.”