Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I never lost hope that this great transformation would occur (...) I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
