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Nelson Mandela Quotes - Page 7

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Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Dog, People, Shelter

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

War, Winning, Election

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

Foundation, Fundamentals, Information

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

Dream, Blessing, Voice

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

Education, Laughter, Inspiration

Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Honesty, Integrity, Humility

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

War, Ignorance, Rights

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

Children, Brilliant, Exciting

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Attitude, America, United States

"Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths.

Weakness

The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.

Jobs, People, Water

Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Inspiring, Leadership, Forgiveness

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

Needs, Bars, Finding Strength

Nothing is black or white.

Inspiring, White, Black

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

Girl, Sex, Pride

FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 11, 2017

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Color, Racism, Political

"Nelson Mandela’s Epitaph, in His Own Words" by Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2013.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

World, Matter, Changing The World

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

Acting, Achieve, South Africa

"Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years".

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Taken, Humanity, Long Walk To Freedom

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Inspiring, Past, Leaving

Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

Rain, Night, Light

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Leadership, Moving, People

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

Optimistic, Dark, Optimism

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

Fit

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Inspiring, Development, Weapons

Born: July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013
Occupation: Former President of South Africa

Quotes: 666

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