Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Source: Speech at the launch of Mindset Network, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 16 July 2003

Genuine Mandela. Delivered at the 2003 Mindset Network launch in Johannesburg; the Nelson Mandela Foundation has confirmed this speech as the source, and it is the standard citation on Wikiquote. Wording in circulation is stable and matches the delivered text.

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