Probably my all time favourite quote is from the Mr Nelson Mandela, from his book ‘Long walk to Freedom’:
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Another one which I have used on numerous occasions is from Colin Powell, the black son of Jamaican immigrants who became the Chief of Staff in the US. It is from his autobiography ‘A Soldier’s Way’:
“I did not feel inferior, and I was not going to let anybody make me believe I was. I was not going to allow someone else’s feelings about me to become my feelings about myself.”
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Submitted by karamat on Sun, 2009-03-15 19:45.