If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. — 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
