Nelson Mandela Quotes

I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu

This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.

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.