Nelson Mandela Quotes about Responsibility

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The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

Nelson Mandela

Heart, Responsibility, Mind

Twitter post from Apr 04, 2017

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

Nelson Mandela

Responsibility, Garden, Leader

We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

Nelson Mandela

Responsibility, Hands, Giving

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

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

Powerful, Mean, Responsibility

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It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.

Nelson Mandela

Country, Party, Responsibility

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

Nelson Mandela

Responsibility, Long Walks, Climbing

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

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

Nelson Mandela

Responsibility, Way, Easier

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

Nelson Mandela

Responsibility, Long Walks, Dare