Nelson Mandela Quotes

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

~ Nelson Mandela

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

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

~ Nelson Mandela

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

~ Nelson Mandela

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

~ Nelson Mandela

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

~ Nelson Mandela

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

~ Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

~ Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

~ Nelson Mandela

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

~ Nelson Mandela

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

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

~ Nelson Mandela

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

~ Nelson Mandela

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

~ Nelson Mandela

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

~ Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

~ Nelson Mandela

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

~ Nelson Mandela