Nelson Mandela and the Fight to End Poverty | UN Weekly | United Nations

Nelson Mandela, the first president of South Africa after apartheid, has a claim to being the most highly respected African leader in modern history.

As well as celebrating Mandela’s legacy as a fighter for human rights, equality and social justice, the Day also promotes the fight against poverty.

Conor speaks to Richard Stengel, a former managing director of Time magazine, who served in the Obama White House as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, and a close collaborator with Mandela on the latter’s acclaimed autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.

They talk about the extent to which ending poverty played an important role in Mandela’s activism and political career.

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”إنني لا أؤمن بعقائد اليهود، ولا عقائد كنيسة روما، ولا كنيسة الأرثودكس الشرقية، ولا عقائد المسلمين، ولا البروتستانت، ولا أي مؤسسة دينية! فعقلي هو كنيستي، فجميع الكنائس هي عبارة عن بدع بشرية أُنشأت وتأسست لإرهاب البشر واسترقاقهم، ولاحتكار السلطة وتحقيق المكاسب على حساب الانسان! إنني لا أهدف الى تدمير الدين السائد، إنما أهدف الى منع الفساد الناتج عن سيطرته باسم الدين، فاللاعقلانية التي تُمارس باسم الدين تقوض النظام الاجتماعي وتدمره. إنني أتصدى للخرافة الزائفة، واللاهوت الزائف، فهذه النظم الدينية المزيفة تفقدنا الأخلاق الانسانية! إن مدرساً واحداً جيد, أكثر فائدة من مائة كاهن.“ — ثوري و سياسي و مفكر أمريكي، توماس بين.
# ThomasPaine

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”الصدق، والإخلاص، البساطة والتواضع، والكرم، وغياب الغرور، والقدرة على خدمة الآخرين وهي صفات في متناول كل نفس هي الأسس الحقيقية لحياتنا الروحية“ - نيلسون مانديلا.
# NelsonMandela

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“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.” — الحاج مالك الشباز Malcolm X.

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قبل كل شيء، أن تكون دائمًا قادرًا على الشعور بعمقٍ بأي ظلم يرتكب ضدَّ أي شخص في أي مكان في العالم، هذه هي أجمل جودة في الثورة. - ثوري كوبي و رجل دولة عالمي، تشي جيفارا.

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MalcolmX's Prayer For Us - "I pray that God will bless you in everything that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually so that you can understand the problems of the world and where you fit into in that world picture and I pray that all the fear that has ever been in your heart will be taken out and when you look at that man you will know that he is nothing but a coward and you won't fear him." Say Ameen!!

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”التعاطف الإنساني يربطنا ببعضنا ليس بالشفقة أو بالتسامح، ولكن كبشر تعلموا كيفية تحويل المعاناة المشتركة إلى أمل للمستقبل.“ - نيلسون مانديلا
# NelsonMandela

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لا شيء في السجن يبعث على الرضا سوى شيء واحد هو توفر الوقت للتأمل والتفكير - نيلسون مانديلا.

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إنَّ الثوريّ الحقيقيّ يسترشد بإحساس كبير بالحب، من المستحيل التفكير في ثوري حقيقي يفتقر إلى هذه الخاصية. - ثوري كوبي و رجل دولة عالمي، تشي جيفارا.

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Nelson Mandela, MAO, LINCOLN, GANDHI, THATCHER LADY, CHURCHILL, GORBACHEV, Reagan inspiration for world

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"ان الحرب وسيلة للدفاع عن الحق، وليست وسيلة للتدمير الشامل، مهما كانت الحجج العسكرية التي يمكن التذرع بها. فهناك فوق اعتبارات الحرب، اعتبارات انسانية تعلوا على كل اعتبار.“ - الفيلسوف الألماني، إيمانويل كانط.

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أنا لست حرا حقا إذا أخذت حرية شخص آخر المظلوم والظالم على حد سواء قد جردوا من إنسانيتهم - نيلسون مانديلا.

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Each of us has a role to play in protecting our planet 🌍

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إن كل دولة كيفما كانت لا يجب أن تُملك من طرف دولة أخرى، وذلك لكون الدول ليست بضاعة كقطعة أرض مثلا بل هي عبارة عن مجموعات انسانية لا يجوز لأحد التحكم فيها سوى هي نفسها، وقد شبهها كانط بالشجرة المستقلة، ودمجها داخل دولة أخرى يعني سلبها وجودها المعنوي وتحويلها إلى شيء من الأشياء. - الفيلسوف الألماني إيمانويل كانط، كتابه: السلام الدائم.

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“I don’t advocate any kind of hate...No, I think that the guilt complex of the American white man is so profound until, when you begin to analyze the real condition of the Black man in America, instead of the American white man eliminating the causes that create that condition, he tries to cover it up by accusing his accusers of teaching hate, but actually they’re just exposing him for being responsible for what exists” — الحاج مالك الشباز Malcolm X.

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‏لا أعرف إذا ما كنت حساساً للغاية، أم أن الحياة لا تُطاق. – فينسنت فان جوخ.

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“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” — الحاج مالك الشباز Malcolm X

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Peace prosperity and progress are people's pride and property, please participate.

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Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today --- الحاج مالك الشباز Malcolm X.

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16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:

21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.


14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.


15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:


9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

19 Quench not the Spirit.

20 Despise not prophesyings.

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

25 Brethren, pray for us.

26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

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في السجن تصبح الذاكرة خليلاً وعدواً في آن واحد - نيلسون مانديلا.