“ Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more tim… Christopher Hitchens
“ When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up… Brandi L. Bates
“ True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela... Israelmore Ayivor
“ Let's be grateful to all those who came in before us. Grateful to all those men and women, young and old alike, who paved the path forward for us, brick by brick. To those men and women who marched ac… Sharad Vivek Sagar
“ 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… William Ernest Henley
“ When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with… Professor Pezhman Mosleh
“ Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. -Nelson Mandela (Pg. 80 of The Homecoming) Robyn Carr
“ You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast—oh I mean bitch. But nowI truly think that if greats who devoted themselves and achieved in some wa… Chelsea Ballinger
“ The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days… Israelmore Ayivor
“ I cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the liberation struggle. To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment… Nelson Mandela
“ Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has… Israelmore Ayivor
“ To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when ta… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ *Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Ma… Israelmore Ayivor
