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Prison Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no…
- I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
- When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.
- I have spent more than 20 years in prison, then on one night I decided to surrender by signing all the terms and conditions of…
- Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
- A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then…
- I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can…
- In prison, illusions can offer comfort.
- For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity…
- Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon
- In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how…
- As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred…
- Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
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