This is related to my post, Tweeting wisdom of the ages, attempting to debunk the notion that something less than 140 characters must be shallow. These are quotations from Nelson Mandela that would fit in tweets:
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
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