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title: "159 Nelson mandela Quotes by 112 authors"
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> [Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kofi-annan/nelson-mandela-stands-as-an-inspiration-to-us-all/)

[Kofi Annan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kofi-annan/)

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> [“You settle for less, you get less.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandi-l-bates/you-settle-for-less-you-get-less/)

[Brandi L. Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandi-l-bates/)

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> [“It always seems impossible until it is done.’ NELSON MANDELA”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ha-joon-chang/it-always-seems-impossible-until-it-is-done-nelson-mandela/)

[Ha-Joon Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ha-joon-chang/)

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> [Rest in peace tata Doctor Nelson Mandela. We love you. . . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tirelo-answer-phokane/rest-in-peace-tata-doctor-nelson-mandela-we-love-you/)

[Tirelo Answer Phokane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tirelo-answer-phokane/)

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> [It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rio-ferdinand/it-was-wicked-meeting-nelson-mandela/)

[Rio Ferdinand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rio-ferdinand/)

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> [It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/it-s-a-blessing-that-south-africa-has-a-man-like-nelson-mandela/)

[Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/)

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> [Nelson Mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/nelson-mandela-showed-us-that-one-man-s-courage-can-move-the-world/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/the-world-thanks-you-for-sharing-nelson-mandela-with-us/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rory-bremner/i-used-to-do-my-nelson-mandela-voice-to-blag-restaurant-tables-in/)

[Rory Bremner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rory-bremner/)

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> [“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love." - Nelson Mandela”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-mandela/people-must-learn-to-hate-and-if-they-can-learn-to-hate-they-can-be-3/)

[Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-mandela/)

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> [Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/binyavanga-wainaina/always-end-your-book-with-nelson-mandela-saying-something-about/)

[Binyavanga Wainaina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/binyavanga-wainaina/)

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> [One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kinky-friedman/one-thing-we-are-sure-of-is-there-s-no-one-like-nelson-mandela-out/)

[Kinky Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kinky-friedman/)

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> [Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-astbury/peace-on-earth-and-good-will-toward-men-that-is-something-we-need-to/)

[Ian Astbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-astbury/)

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> [Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kumi-naidoo/whenever-anybody-called-nelson-mandela-a-saint-he-would-say-if-by/)

[Kumi Naidoo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kumi-naidoo/)

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> [Nelson Mandela knew that sport has the power to inspire and unite people in a way that little else does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masai-ujiri/nelson-mandela-knew-that-sport-has-the-power-to-inspire-and-unite/)

[Masai Ujiri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masai-ujiri/)

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> [“Nelson Mandela spoke the God’s honest truth when he said that holding on to anger is like drinking poison and hoping the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-miscavige/nelson-mandela-spoke-the-god-s-honest-truth-when-he-said-that-holding/)

[Ron Miscavige](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-miscavige/)

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> [Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-adams/very-sad-to-hear-about-the-passing-of-nelson-mandela-he-was-a-true/)

[Bryan Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-adams/)

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> [Nelson Mandela represents an enduring example of the human spirit and he proved for eternity that the ideals of democracy and human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerry-kennedy/nelson-mandela-represents-an-enduring-example-of-the-human-spirit-and/)

[Kerry Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerry-kennedy/)

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> [Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernice-king/nelson-mandela-a-better-man-not-a-bitter-man-made-our-world-a-better/)

[Bernice King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernice-king/)

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> [I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malala-yousafzai/i-have-learned-so-much-from-nelson-mandela-and-he-has-been-my-leader/)

[Malala Yousafzai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malala-yousafzai/)

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> [“I am what I am….both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-sampson/i-am-what-i-am-both-as-a-result-of-people-who-respected-me-and-helped/)

[Anthony Sampson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-sampson/)

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> [The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strong/the-person-i-respect-most-in-terms-of-historical-figures-is-probably/)

[Mark Strong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strong/)

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> [ Don't talk to me about what's happened since \[Nelson\] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/don-t-talk-to-me-about-what-s-happened-since-nelson-mandela-his/)

[Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/)

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> [There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/machine-gun-kelly/there-s-blackballing-involved-with-machine-gun-kelly-a-lot-of/)

[Machine Gun Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/machine-gun-kelly/)

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> [Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trevor-noah/nelson-mandela-was-in-jail-when-i-was-really-young-and-winnie-mandela/)

[Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trevor-noah/)

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> [Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-bailey/nelson-mandela-set-his-course-a-long-time-ago-and-in-word-and-deed/)

[Philip Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-bailey/)

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> [Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/look-at-nelson-mandela-why-did-people-want-to-follow-him-he-s-a-lousy/)

[Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/)

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> [“Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/enock-maregesi/mandela-alikuwa-hodari-ndiyo-maana-akapelekwa-jela-alikuwa-mvumilivu/)

[Enock Maregesi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/enock-maregesi/)

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> [As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thabo-mbeki/as-we-mourn-president-mandela-s-passing-we-must-ask-ourselves-the/)

[Thabo Mbeki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thabo-mbeki/)

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> [I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-branson/i-read-everything-but-generally-more-fact-than-fiction-especially/)

[Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-branson/)

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> [Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scilla-elworthy/nelson-mandela-went-to-jail-believing-in-violence-and-27-years-later/)

[Scilla Elworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scilla-elworthy/)

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> [The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/the-famous-passage-from-her-book-is-often-erroneously-attributed-to/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idowu-koyenikan/most-people-write-me-off-when-they-see-me-they-do-not-know-my-story/)

[idowu koyenikan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idowu-koyenikan/)

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> [“Tabia yako ya siri mwanao atakuwa nayo! Kama Nelson Mandela alikuwa alama ya msamaha, msamaha ni tabia yetu. Kama Kwame Nkrumah alikuwa…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/enock-maregesi/tabia-yako-ya-siri-mwanao-atakuwa-nayo-kama-nelson-mandela-alikuwa/)

[Enock Maregesi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/enock-maregesi/)

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> [“His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandela’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/his-day-is-done-is-done-the-news-came-on-the-wings-of-a-wind/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [“Your secret behavior will be inherited by your children! If Nelson Mandela was a symbol of reconciliation; then reconciliation is our character.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/enock-maregesi/your-secret-behavior-will-be-inherited-by-your-children-if-nelson/)

[Enock Maregesi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/enock-maregesi/)

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> [“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/very-often-the-test-of-one-s-allegiance-to-a-cause-or-to-a-people-is/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-kielburger/but-while-nelson-mandela-s-work-is-sadly-done-his-dream-is-unfinished/)

[Craig Kielburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-kielburger/)

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> [Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/unsurprisingly-nelson-mandela-had-and-still-has-many-detractors/)

[Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/)

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> [Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kumi-naidoo/nelson-mandela-also-spoke-about-how-as-a-human-being-he-s-made/)

[Kumi Naidoo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kumi-naidoo/)

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                        "text": "Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line.",
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                        "text": "“Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora wa Afrika Kusini. Utu ukafanya awasamehe binadamu wenzake. Urithi wa Nelson Mandela kwetu ni uhodari, uvumilivu, uongozi bora, utu na msamaha kwa binadamu wenzetu. Mandela alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Afrika Kusini alikuwa mlezi wa ndoto, ya amani na uhuru.”",
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                        "text": "“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African. They judge me before they get to know me. What they do not know is The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins; The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people; The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community; The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance; The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it. Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning. So you think I am nothing? Don’t worry about what I am now, For what I will be, I am gradually becoming. I will raise my head high wherever I go Because of my African pride, And nobody will take that away from me.”",
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                        "text": "“Tabia yako ya siri mwanao atakuwa nayo! Kama Nelson Mandela alikuwa alama ya msamaha, msamaha ni tabia yetu. Kama Kwame Nkrumah alikuwa alama ya umoja, umoja ni tabia yetu. Kama Patrice Lumumba alikuwa alama ya uzalendo, uzalendo ni tabia yetu. Kama Robert Mugabe ni alama ya udikteta, udikteta ni tabia yetu. Kama Haile Selassie alikuwa alama ya ushujaa, ushujaa ni tabia yetu. Kama Samora Machel alikuwa alama ya ujamaa, ujamaa ni tabia yetu. Kama Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa alama ya haki, haki ni tabia yetu. Sisi ni watoto wa wazalendo wa Afrika! Wao ni baba wa mataifa ya Afrika! Tumerithi tabia zao za siri.”",
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                        "text": "“His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandela’s day is done. The news, expected and still unwelcome, reached us in the United States, and suddenly our world became somber. Our skies were leadened. His day is done. We see you, South African people standing speechless at the slamming of that final door through which no traveller returns. Our spirits reach out to you Bantu, Zulu, Xhosa, Boer. We think of you and your son of Africa, your father, your one more wonder of the world. We send our souls to you as you reflect upon your David armed with a mere stone, facing down the mighty Goliath. Your man of strength, Gideon, emerging triumphant. Although born into the brutal embrace of Apartheid, scarred by the savage atmosphere of racism, unjustly imprisoned in the bloody maws of South African dungeons. Would the man survive? Could the man survive? His answer strengthened men and women around the world. In the Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas, on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, in Chicago’s Loop, in New Orleans Mardi Gras, in New York City’s Times Square, we watched as the hope of Africa sprang through the prison’s doors. His stupendous heart intact, his gargantuan will hale and hearty. He had not been crippled by brutes, nor was his passion for the rights of human beings diminished by twenty-seven years of imprisonment. Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom. When Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote we were enlarged by tears of pride, as we saw Nelson Mandela’s former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration. We saw him accept the world’s award in Norway with the grace and gratitude of the Solon in Ancient Roman Courts, and the confidence of African Chiefs from ancient royal stools. No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn. Yes, Mandela’s day is done, yet we, his inheritors, will open the gates wider for reconciliation, and we will respond generously to the cries of Blacks and Whites, Asians, Hispanics, the poor who live piteously on the floor of our planet. He has offered us understanding. We will not withhold forgiveness even from those who do not ask. Nelson Mandela’s day is done, we confess it in tearful voices, yet we lift our own to say thank you. Thank you our Gideon, thank you our David, our great courageous man. We will not forget you, we will not dishonor you, we will remember and be glad that you lived among us, that you taught us, and that you loved us all.”",
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                        "text": "“Your secret behavior will be inherited by your children! If Nelson Mandela was a symbol of reconciliation; then reconciliation is our character. If Kwame Nkrumah was a symbol of unity; then unity is our character. If Patrice Lumumba was a symbol of patriotism; then patriotism is our character. If Robert Mugabe is a symbol of dictatorship; then dictatorship is our character. If Haile Selassie was a symbol of heroism; then heroism is our character. If Samora Machel was a symbol of socialism; then socialism is our character. If Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a symbol of justice; then justice is our character. We are the children of the African patriarchs! They are the fathers of the African nations! We have inherited their secret behaviors.”",
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                        "text": "“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a cliché (as well as a tundra of pulverizing boredom) and it forced the cliché upon me in turn. I did have to mention Kafka in my eventual story. The regime fell not very much later, as I had slightly foreseen in that same piece that it would. (I had happened to notice that the young Czechs arrested with us were not at all frightened by the police, as their older mentors had been and still were, and also that the police themselves were almost fatigued by their job. This was totalitarianism practically yawning itself to death.) A couple of years after that I was overcome to be invited to an official reception in Prague, to thank those who had been consistent friends through the stultifying years of what 'The Party' had so perfectly termed 'normalization.' As with my tiny moment with Nelson Mandela, a whole historic stretch of nothingness and depression, combined with the long and deep insult of having to be pushed around by boring and mediocre people, could be at least partially canceled and annealed by one flash of humor and charm and generosity.”",
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