Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader

Alive from: 1918-2013

Category: Politics

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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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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

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  A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
  Source: De lange weg naar vrijheid

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
  Source: Long way to freedom

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  Any language can be the vehicle of racist insults and repression, but it can also be the carrier of the message of hope and liberation.
  Source: The Star, 19 september 1991

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
  Source: Documentary Mandela (1994)

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  Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

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  Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
  Source: Speech university Johannesburg (16-07-2003)

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  I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
  Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

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  If you see something good, give a compliment. If you see something wrong, offer your help.

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  It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

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

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  Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
  Source: Inauguratie 10 May 1994

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  Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

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  No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
  Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995)