Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. — 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
I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice… — 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
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we… — 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
The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. — 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