A Quote by Nelson Mandela

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

Nelson Mandela

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Allowed Charting Continent Course Destiny Must Our Own Things

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Nelson Mandela
South African - Statesman
July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013

We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.

Angela Merkel

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

Pico Iyer

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

James K. Polk

China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs. And therefore would have to say in our own interests, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of the development of the African continent.

Thabo Mbeki

For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

Paulo Coelho

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.

Alfredo Jaar

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

Meghan Daum

America's brightest minds are charting a course to a clean energy future that will provide for our health, safety, and prosperity.

Brian Schatz

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

Roh Moo-hyun

Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Pink

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Pink

God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.