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 suffering into hope for the future. —Nelson Mandela
“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 suffering into hope for the future.”

Nelson Mandela FORMER PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA

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Anonymous NOVEMBER 22, 2019
We should remember this every day.

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