Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the… — 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
Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest… — 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
