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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Africa and a lawyer's qualification from the University of Witwatersrand. He served as national secretary and chairman of the ANC Youth League. He served as the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black president and was revered as the "Father of the Founding of South Africa". Below are the quotes I compiled about Mandela, I hope they will be helpful to you!

No.1 Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

No.2 I have finished playing my role, and now I just want to live in obscurity. I want to go back to my hometown village and walk on the hillsides where I played in my childhood.

 No.3 I will never give in, and the struggle is not over for me, but has just begun in a different form.

No.4 Democracy requires respect for the political rights of minorities.

No.5 The oppressors need liberation just as much as the oppressed. The person who takes away the freedom of others is a prisoner of hatred. He is imprisoned by the iron bars of prejudice and short-sightedness.

No.6 Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world.

No.7 Knowing the soul of a society depends on the way the society treats its children. There is no better way than this.

No.8 Everything seems impossible until something is done.

No.9 I want to paint that island with optimistic colors, which is what I want to share with people around the world. I want to tell everyone that as long as we accept the challenges in life, even the most bizarre dreams can come true!

No.10 A saint is actually a sinner, but he will continue to work hard to be good.

No.11 If you want to build peace with your enemy, you must work with your enemy. That way he becomes your comrade-in-arms.

No.12 After climbing a high mountain, you will find that there are more mountains waiting for you.

No.13 In my country, we are prisoners first and then presidents.

No.14 When I walked out of the cell and walked towards the prison door leading to freedom, I knew that if I could not leave behind the pain and resentment, then I would still be in prison.

No.15 The greatest moment in life is not that you never fall, but that you always rise again after falling.

No.16 I am fundamentally an optimist. As to whether this is innate nature or an acquired habit, I am not sure. As an optimist, you need to face the sun with your head held high and stride forward.

No.17 If there is a dream to build a better South Africa, there is a road leading to the dream. Kindness and forgiveness are two of those avenues.

No.18 Everything always seems impossible until it succeeds.

No.19 Only when blacks and whites become brothers can South Africa prosper and develop.

No.20 The most sensitive way to reveal the soul of a society is to look at the way this society treats its children.

No.21 If you communicate with a person in a language he understands, he will remember it in his mind; if you communicate with him in his own language, he will remember it in his heart.

No.22 We can be as humble as dust, but we cannot be twisted like maggots.

 No.23 One of the advantages of being older is that people will respect you because of your gray hair and say all kinds of compliments, but these words may not match you personally. .

No.24 No one is born hating others because of their skin color, origin, or religious beliefs. Hatred is learned. And if they can learn to hate, then they can also learn to love, because love enters the human heart more naturally than hate.

No.25 I hope that this sentence can be written on my tombstone: 'Buried here are those who have done their duty'. Other than that, I want nothing more.

No.26 People cannot do nothing, express nothing or react to justice. They cannot but protest against oppression and make efforts to build a good society and a good life.

No.27 A brave person is not a person who cannot feel fear, but a person who conquers fear.

No.28 In this war in Iraq, we saw every move of the United States and Bush. Who is the threat to the world?

No.29 For the sake of peace, brave people are not afraid of tolerance.

 No.30 The meaning of life is not the simple fact that we have lived, but whether we bring changes to other people's lives.

 No.31 When I walked out of the cell and walked through the prison door leading to freedom, I already knew that if I could not leave my grief and resentment behind, then I would still be in prison.

No.32 I long for an Africa with internal peace.

No.33 I dream that Africa will be unified through the concerted efforts of African leaders to jointly solve various problems in Africa. I dreamed of vast deserts, dense forests, and endless wilderness.

 No.34 There are many dark moments when humanitarian beliefs are temporarily tested painfully, but I will not and cannot bow to pessimism. Giving in to pessimism means failure and death.

No.35 I have a beautiful ideal of establishing a democratic and free society. In such a society, everyone lives in harmony and has equal opportunities. I hope to live for this ideal and Go make it happen.

No.36 I have no other special beliefs, except that our cause is just, which is very strong and wins more and more support.

No.37 I am determined to continue fighting for freedom until the moment I die.

No.38 I realize that bravery does not mean the absence of fear, but the victory over fear. A brave person does not feel no fear, but conquers fear.

No.39 No one is born brave. Being brave does not mean not being afraid, but pretending to be brave and learning to overcome fear.

No.40 I fulfill my responsibilities to my people and to South Africa. I have no doubt that posterity will restore my honor, and equally I say that the criminals who should stand before this court are members of the Government.

No.41 If you are bright, the world will not be dark. If you have hope, the world will not be completely hopeless. If you don't give in, what can the world do to you?

No.42 The most glorious thing in life is not the absence of failure, but the courage to stand up after every failure.

 No.43 What is important in life is not just the pure fact that we have lived, but the changes we have made in the lives of others. This determines the meaning of life.

No.44 The moment I walked out of the cell and passed through the door of freedom, I understood that if I didn’t leave my sorrow and resentment behind, I would still be in prison.

No.45 The greatest glory in life is not that you never fall, but that you can always rise again after falling. I appreciate this flexible state of life, experiencing wind and rain happily, and facing life with a smile.

No.46 A shrewd mind and a kind heart are often an incredible combination.

No.47 When I walked out of the cell and walked towards the prison door leading to freedom, I already knew that if I could not leave the pain and resentment behind, then I would actually be in prison.

No.48 An educated person will not suffer oppression because he has the ability to think alone.

No.49 No one is born to hate another person because of the color of his skin, his place of birth or his religious beliefs. Hate needs to be learned, and since people can learn to hate, they can also be taught to love. Love enters the human heart more easily than hate.

No.50 The greatest glory is not to never fall, but to always stand up after falling.

 No.51 A country should not be judged by how it treats its highest-ranking people, but by how it treats the poor or those who have nothing.

 No.52 Before something is completed, everything seems impossible.

No.53 Thank God for giving me an unconquerable soul. I am the master of my destiny and the commander of my soul!

 No.54 I have experienced many dark moments, in which my faith in human nature has been severely tested, but I am unwilling and unable to allow myself to succumb to despair.

Surrendering to despair means failure and death.

No.55 A brave man is not a person without fear, but a person who conquers fear.

No.56 Hatred caused by a person’s skin color, financial background and religious beliefs is definitely not innate. Hatred needs to be learned. If people can learn to hate, they can also learn to love. The reason is that love is far more natural than hate to the human heart.

No.57 If you want to reconcile with your enemy, work with him.