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Quote by Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off ones chains, but to live

For to be free is not merely to cast off ones chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela

Other quotes by Nelson Mandela

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela

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Future
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Nelson Mandela
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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. – Nelson Mandela

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Wisdom
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Nelson Mandela
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter. – Maureen OHara

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Freedom

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity… We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. – Carlos Fuentes

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Freedom

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. – Rand Paul

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Freedom

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. – Tertullian

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Freedom

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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. – Thomas Fuller

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There does not now, nor will there ever exist, a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs. – Lawrence Flon

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Religion

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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God