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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
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It only seems impossible until it's done.
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.
Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
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.
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony.
