"It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not."

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Source : Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

Nelson Mandela

#Ethnicity Quotes #Diversity Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.”
“Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.”
“The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. To finally share this film has been so gratifying. The way audiences have responded, too.”
“I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.”
“Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.”
“The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.”
“I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.”

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