Nelson Mandela Quotes

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

Yourself, Nothing, Find

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Fight, Played

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.
Nelson Mandela

Future, Hope, Human

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela

Human, Humanity, Challenge

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Powerful, Rich

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

Off, Water, Turn

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Tell, Struggling

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela

Family, Time, Good

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Fear, Courageous

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
Nelson Mandela

Give, Stop, Somebody

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.
Nelson Mandela

Happiness, Fear, Help

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela

Lose, Dignity, Rob

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

Men, Freedom, Cannot

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson Mandela

Rich, Poverty, Able

There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela

Cannot, Within, Israel

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Unless, Educated

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Nelson Mandela

Country, America, United

We can't afford to be killing one another.
Nelson Mandela

Another, Afford

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.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Live, Together

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Peace, Laughter

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela

Rather, Dying, Blood

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

Freedom, Help, Important

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
Nelson Mandela

Living, Leaders, Lead

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Nationality: South African

Type: Statesman

Born: July 18, 1918

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