Nelson Mandela | "On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education."

"On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

Colonialism, Identity, Education, Culture

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"On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education."

"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."

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"On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education."

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"Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!"

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Personal Development

"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."

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Personal Development

"Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."

Justice

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

Wisdom

"Forget the past."

Past

"If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent."

Economics

"When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime."

Freedom

"This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan."

Politics

"I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites."

Resistance

"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."

Diplomacy

"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."

Morality

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

Freedom

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"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."

Author Name

Personal Development

"On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education."

Author Name

Personal Development

Author Name

Personal Development

"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."

Justice

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

Wisdom

"Forget the past."

Past

"If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent."

Economics

"When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime."

Freedom

"This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan."

Politics

Resistance

"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."

Diplomacy

"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."

Morality

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

Freedom