3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
