Nelson Mandela Quotes

• 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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• There is no such thing as part freedom.

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

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

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

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

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

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• I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

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• I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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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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• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

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• Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

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• 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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• I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment.

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• It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

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• I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P.

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• Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we put on non- violence. Our most loyal supporters, whose courage and devotion has never been doubted, unanimously and stren.

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• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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• 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 end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man’s court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

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Nelson Mandela (116)

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

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