Nelson Mandela Quotes

• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  

  Bryan Adams
  • World
  • True
  • Inspiration

• If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Hero
  • Gold
  • South Africa

• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

  

  Bono U2
  • Respond
  • Africans
  • Cancellations

• I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Benefit
  • Met
  • Awe

• Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Nelson Mandela

• History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Peace