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Quote by Nelson Mandela
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to co

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. – Nelson Mandela

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. – Nelson Mandela

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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You dont have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. – Nelson Mandela

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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. – Charles Frankel

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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government. – Madeleine Albright

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