Robert M. GatesHe taught me early in life to take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done.
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Nelson Mandela said, "He taught me early in life to take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done." At the time, this quote made me wonder how much Mandela would have changed if he had known that his family would be separated into groups based on race? Later, I remembered that I had read that when Mandela was imprisoned in jail for 27 years, he spoke to other inmates about the importance of racial harmony.
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