You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/387/nelson-mandela-248_debate_there-are-people-here-in-south-africa-wh_1176169.jpg)
![“Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white.” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c52/nelson-mandela-248_black_both-bush-as-well-as-tony-blair-are-unde_2110652.jpg)
![“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name…” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d3a/nelson-mandela-248_bias_no-one-in-my-family-had-ever-attended-sc_2221073.jpg)
![“What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7b/nelson-mandela-248_angle_what-we-did-was-to-try-and-exploit-that_2634099.jpg)
