Nelson Mandela Quotes
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When we were born we cried and the people around us smiled. Live life so that when you die you are smiling and the people around you are crying.
By Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children
By Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was no the absence of fear, but the triump over. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
By Nelson Mandela
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.
By Nelson Mandela
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
By Nelson Mandela
Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been convicted before this court may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed, I will still be moved as men are always moved, by their consci
By Nelson Mandela
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
By Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.
By Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
By Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
By Nelson Mandela
Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then we'd roast it and eat it.
By Nelson Mandela
The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people...
By Nelson Mandela
The New Year will bring many changes, ... They will depend on our working together to realize our dream.
By Nelson Mandela
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
By Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
By Nelson Mandela
One temptation of a leader elected unopposed is that he may use that powerful position to settle scores with his detractors, marginalize them and, in certain cases, get rid of them and surround himself with yes men and women,
By Nelson Mandela
One of the few advantages of prison life is that one has time to read. This opened our minds and forced us to re-examine some of our views.
By Nelson Mandela
Nobody opposed it and I was very happy with their response. They appear to be open-minded, notwithstanding the wounds and the scars they have suffered.
By Nelson Mandela
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
By Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
By Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man
By Nelson Mandela
I am accusing the truth commission of being abused and not performing the task which it was supposed to perform,
By Nelson Mandela
He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid,
By Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
By Nelson Mandela