Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." _x000D_ _x000D_ [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
Interpretation
Effective communication relies on the strength of your ideas rather than loudness.
This quote emphasizes the importance of forming sound arguments and reasoning instead of resorting to shouting or aggressive behavior to make one's point. It suggests that rational discourse and thoughtful discussion hold more power in persuading others than merely raising one's voice.
In practice
During a debate, use this quote to encourage peers to focus on logical reasoning rather than raising their voices.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.
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