15 Nelson Mandela Quotes
1. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
2. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
3. “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is people who have made poverty and tolerated poverty, and it is people who will overcome it. And 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 life.”
4. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
5. “Difficulties break some men, but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.”
6. “For to be free is not to merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
7. “A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”
8. “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”
9. “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. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.”
10. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”
11. “I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.”
12. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
13. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
14. “It is now in the hands of your generations to help rid the world of such suffering.”
15. “Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished”
– Stephanie Lamm