Quote of Nelson Mandela - Overcoming poverty is not a gesture...
Biography - Nelson Mandela:
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader.
Born: 1918 - Died: 2013
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: South Africa
Born: 1918 - Died: 2013
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: South Africa
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about Justice:
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Quotes about poverty:
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Nelson Mandela also said...
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