Motivational Status in English

Leaders must be willing to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made, and can be removed by the actions of human beings.

There is no passion to be found playing small

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.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

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.