Nelson Mandela quotes - page 7

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. (Nelson Mandela)
My fellow South Africans - the people of South Africa: This is indeed a joyous night. View quote
Nelson Mandela
These countless human beings, both inside and outside our country, had the nobility of spirit to stand in the path of tyranny and injustice, without seeking selfish gain. They recognised that an injury to one is an injury to all and therefore acted together in defense of justice and a common human decency. View quote
Nelson Mandela
All of us have a role to play in shaping society. View quote
Nelson Mandela
He seeks an economic order, alternative to the capitalist and communist, and finds this in sarvodaya based on nonviolence (ahimsa). He rejects Darwin's survival of the fittest, Adam Smith's laissez-faire and Karl Marx's thesis of a natural antagonism between capital and labor, and focuses on the interdependence between the two. He believes in the human capacity to change and wages Satyagraha against the oppressor, not to destroy him but to transform him, that he cease his oppression and join the oppressed in the pursuit of Truth. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. View quote
Nelson Mandela
We admire the achievements of the Cuban revolution in the sphere of social welfare. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Today we are entering a new era for our country and its people. Today we celebrate not the victory of a party, but a victory for all the people of South Africa. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela)
Together, we join two distinguished South Africans, the late Chief Albert Lutuli and His Grace Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to whose seminal contributions to the peaceful struggle against the evil system of apartheid you paid well-deserved tribute by awarding them the Nobel Peace Prize. It will not be presumptuous of us if we also add, among our predecessors, the name of another outstanding Nobel Peace Prize winner, the late Rev Martin Luther King Jr. View quote
Nelson Mandela
The collapse of education is a collapse of the nation. View quote
Nelson Mandela
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. View quote
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. View quote
Nelson Mandela
By ancestry, I was born to rule. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. View quote
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. (Nelson Mandela)
Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. View quote
Nelson Mandela
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. View quote
Nelson Mandela
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. View quote
Nelson Mandela