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South Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you…
- Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united,…
- South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the…
- We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we…
- There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action…
- I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the…
- As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many…
- The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the…
- Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party
- Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.
- South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the fact that the…
- The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home…
- Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter
- The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to…
- Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan…
- We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that…
- If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named…
- There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been…
- The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black…
- Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from…
- At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is…
- I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my…
More South Quotes
- The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch
- I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as… — Alan Ball
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. — Benazir Bhutto
- In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko
- Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered… — Conrad Black
- I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I… — Lewis Black
- I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one… — Ben Affleck
- My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights… — Edward de Bono
- I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. — Jeff Bridges
- Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a… — Jan Brewer
- Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my… — Louise Brown