I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one’s grip and even one’s sanity.” — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have… — 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 was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of… — 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 wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight… — 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
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
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“before either of us knew it, we were in the same room and in each other’s arms. I kissed and held my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as… — 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
Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is… — 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
What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and… — 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
