Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you…As we are liberated from our fear, our… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if… — 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
During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as… — 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,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who… — 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
Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — 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
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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
I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I… — 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
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training.… — 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
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in… — 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
What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light… — 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
