“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.”

Anti-apartheid leader, President of South Africa · 1918 – 2013

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who spent 27 years in prison and became the country's first Black president in 1994.

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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say.