3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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?
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela 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.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
