Nelson Mandela Quotes

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Nelson Mandela

Profession : Statesman

Birth : July 18, 1918

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.

Nelson Mandela

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

Nelson Mandela

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

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 wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Nelson Mandela

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.

Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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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.

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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Nelson Mandela

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

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We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

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In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

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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.

Nelson Mandela