South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination... — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters'… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. — 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
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting. — 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
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