Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

That tingle in the brain is called a word.It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night.

Deep down inside what i want is a little of me.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

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