Nelson Mandela Quotes
45 sayings by Nelson Mandela — 45 quotes.
- Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.Quote · South Africa
- Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.Quote · South Africa
- There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.Quote · South Africa
- I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.Quote · South Africa
- There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.Quote · South Africa
- Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.Quote · South Africa
- 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 Goodness and Forgiveness.Quote · South Africa
- During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.Quote · South Africa
- No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.Quote · South Africa
- No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.Quote · South Africa
- It’s not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.Quote · South Africa
- There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.Quote · South Africa
- People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.Quote · South Africa
- We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.Quote · South Africa
- Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.Quote · South Africa
- If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.Quote · South Africa
- There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.Quote · South Africa
- I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.Quote · South Africa
- We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.Quote · South Africa
- In my country we go to prison first and then become President.Quote · South Africa
- If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.Quote · South Africa