Nelson Mandela Quotes about Fate

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I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Nelson Mandela

Fate, Boys, Suffering

Nelson Mandela (2008). “Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela”, p.19, Hachette UK

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

Inspiring, Country, Fate

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

Fate, Misunderstood, Canon

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

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Nelson Mandela

Fate, Errors, Talking

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan