Nelson Mandela Quotes

• 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 able to conquer poverty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Poverty, Able

• Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Peace, Courageous

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Challenge, Humanity

  Tags in Human

• I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Good, Time

• There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Happiness, Help

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Tell, Struggling

• 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

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Hope, Human

• Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Give, Stop

• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Powerful, Rich

• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, End, Must

• 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

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Freedom, Through

• There is no passion to be found in setting for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Passion, Living

• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Found, Small, Passion

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Powerful

• It always seems impossible until it is done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible

• The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the A.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Democracy, Society

  Tags in Revolution

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Perseverance, Glory

• I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

  Nelson Mandela

  Tags in Discrimination

• When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boiling, Water

Nelson Mandela (116)

Birth:	18th July, 1918
Death:	5th December, 2013
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, Social Worker, Statesman

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