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"It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity."
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"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"
"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."
"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
"Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place."
"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."
"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"
"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
Explore more quotes by Nelson Mandela
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."
"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."
"In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine."
"I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."
"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 don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."
"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
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