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“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” “There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.” “I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.” “I never lose. I either win or learn.” “I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.” “Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.” “I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.” “Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.” “As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.” “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.” “It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.” “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” “Where you stand depends on where you sit.”