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Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela 
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections,
they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia.
But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate;
prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
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
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing,
whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
Money won't create success,
the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Communists have always played an active role
in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom,
because the short-term objects of Communism
would always correspond with
the long-term objects of freedom movements.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa,
whereby its leaders combine in their efforts
to solve the problems of this continent.
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests,
of all our great wildernesses.
- Nelson Mandela
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the press is free and every man
is able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness,
the general mind must be strengthened by education.
- Thomas Jefferson
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
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