Mandela's legacy

We were discussing today Nelson Mandela's legacy and story. Here are some of his most known quotes: 

• No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
• 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.
• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Do you know any other you would like to share? Please feel free to comment and discuss with us. 

Also as we agreed, here you have the Poem that appears in Invictus. Just remember it is not Mandela's, it was written by William Ernest Henley, a victorian author. 

 “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance


I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,


How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:


I am the captain of my soul.

Rest in Peace, Madiba, mankind will never be able to thank you enough.