Humans Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

— Nelson Mandela

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

— Nelson Mandela

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

— Nelson Mandela

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

— Nelson Mandela

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

— Nelson Mandela

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

— Nelson Mandela

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of…

— Nelson Mandela

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

— Nelson Mandela

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

— Nelson Mandela

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely…

— 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…

— Nelson Mandela

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

— Nelson Mandela

We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea…

— Nelson Mandela

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One…

— Nelson Mandela

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings…

— Nelson Mandela

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't…

— Nelson Mandela

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have…

— Nelson Mandela

The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world…

— Nelson Mandela

That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then…

— Nelson Mandela

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger…

— Nelson Mandela

It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is…

— Nelson Mandela

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth…

— Nelson Mandela

I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and…

— Nelson Mandela

Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for…

— Nelson Mandela

We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a…

— Nelson Mandela

At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for…

— Nelson Mandela

Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual…

— Nelson Mandela

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for…

— Nelson Mandela

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that…

— Nelson Mandela

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

— Nelson Mandela

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

— Nelson Mandela

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will…

— Nelson Mandela

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

— Nelson Mandela

But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable…

— Nelson Mandela

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where…

— Nelson Mandela

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence…

— Nelson Mandela

In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through…

— Nelson Mandela

The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the…

— Nelson Mandela

You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays…

— 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…

— Nelson Mandela