Mandela Quotes
86 quotes by 71 authors
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct…
— John Berger
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're…
— Dennis C. Blair
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation…
— Bono
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a…
— Jackson Browne
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson…
— Jack Canfield
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Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
— John Bonifaz
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From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
— Gary Hamel
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During my time here [Guantanamo], as Nelson Mandela says … the most important thing you have is time to think about things. I came to…
— Omar Khadr
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Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really…
— Christopher Judge
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Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because…
— Rick Santorum
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
— Naomi Campbell
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal…
— Tom Peters
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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became…
— Achmat Dangor
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle…
— Nina Simone
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Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies…
— Nelson Mandela
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That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no…
— Nelson Mandela
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I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or…
— Jody Williams
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Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact…
— Auberon Waugh
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Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them.…
— Rush Limbaugh
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