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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom

From Mandela's 1994 autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, recounting his 27 years of imprisonment and his struggle against apartheid.

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