Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader
Alive from: 1918-2013
Category: Politics
Quotes 1 till 15 of 23.
-
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.
-
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
-
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 -
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
Source: Long way to freedom -
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 -
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) -
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
-
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Source: Speech university Johannesburg (16-07-2003) -
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) -
If you see something good, give a compliment. If you see something wrong, offer your help.
-
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
-
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
-
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Source: Inauguratie 10 May 1994 -
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
-
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)
Subjects in these quotes:
Similar authors
-
Nadine Gordimer
South african writer 11 -
Bryce Courtenay
South African-Australian advertising director and novelist 11 -
Alan Paton
South African author and anti-apartheid activist 10 -
Olive Schreiner
South African author and anti-war campaigner 8 -
Breyten Breytenbach
South African writer and painter 8 -
Candice Swanepoel
South African model and philanthropist 6 -
J.M. Coetzee
South African-born Australian novelist 4 -
Bram Fischer
South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist 4
All Nelson Mandela famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com 23 found