Nelson Mandela Quotes
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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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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
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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 can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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It always seems impossible until it's done.
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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.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
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Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
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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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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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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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My son has died of AIDS.
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It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
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You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
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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.