Intervention only works when the people concerned ... -Nelson Mandela

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Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Nelson Mandela , Statesman
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Nelson Mandela Quotes to Explore

It always seems impossible until it's done....
Forget the past....
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauf...
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla w...
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts....
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the polic...
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal...
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common sufferin...
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. Y...
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace....

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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace....
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace....
I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Ministe...
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very ra...
Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun....
A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your f...
As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations....
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness tha...
The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and ...
I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We b...