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Nelson Mandela Quotes
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![Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/803/802792/802792.webp "Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white Picture Quote #1")
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What made Nelson Mandela great, was precisely what made him human. We saw in him, what we seek in ourselves (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
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 (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
I’m inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That’s bravery beyond comprehension (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela’s former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we’ve left on others (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, ‘Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def’? (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
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. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I’d run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
It’s a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq’s oil. (Nelson Mandela Quotes)