User:Camelia.boban/Graça Machel

Graça Machel at Sports for Peace Gala 2010 in Johannesburg

Graça Machel (1945), South African politician and activist.

Quotes edit

  • Fighters never say goodbye.[1]
  • In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.[2]
  • If we have intelligence, imagination, and the ability to dream, things can happen.[3][1]
  • At my age, I don't want to do things I'm supposed to. I will do the things I want to.[1]
  • [on the marriage with Nelson Mandela We were grown up; we were settled; we knew the value of a companion, of a partner.[4]
  • [on Nelson Mandela It's ... there was a sort of conflict between the man I loved and the myth. Particularly because people were saying things, and I couldn't figure out the two would go together. I know him as a human being, a person and this myth surrounding him. The aura around him was a bit confusing, but then I learnt to live with it, in terms of separating the two.[5]

References edit

  1. a b c Stewart, aa, bbb, 2005.
  2. Unicef, A personal note from Graça Machel, unicef.org.
  3. Stewart, cc, ddd, 2004.
  4. Faith Karimi, Nelson Mandela: 10 things to know about his wife, Graca Machel, edition.cnn.com, 15 dicembre 2013
  5. CNN, Wife: Nelson Mandela has one regret, edition.cnn.com, 26 giugno 2008