Nelson Mandela Quotes
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The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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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.
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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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It always seems impossible until it's done.
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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
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Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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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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I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
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Forget the past.
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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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We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people.
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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.
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My son has died of AIDS.
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Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
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I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
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The Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence.