The best Quotes by Nelson Mandela

05.12.2013

Duty Last Words 2013

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

USA

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration of every free man.

Human Rights Freedom Revolution

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

Leaders

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Forgiveness & Mercy

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Fear Courage

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Mind vs. Heart

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.

2002, on the US, preparing to invade Iraq

USA 2002

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

Aids & HIV

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Money

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Progress Motivation

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Ambition

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Education

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

Africa

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

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Humanity

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Education

Apartheid is the rule of the gun and the hangman.

Racism

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Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Thabo Mbeki

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

Thabo Mbeki

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

Thabo Mbeki

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Thabo Mbeki

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

Thabo Mbeki

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I never talk about my private life.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

Usher

Education

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

Roman Herzog

Education

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

USA Food

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

Queen Elizabeth II (as Queen of the United Kingdom) - April 2020

Coronavirus

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Earl Wilson

Duty Temptation

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley - last words - May 11th 1981

Last Words

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Edward Snowden - Interview Glenn Greenwald, 06.06.2013

Truth 2013

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Power Revolution

A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Responsibility Leaders

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Forgiveness & Mercy

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

Calvin Klein

Aids & HIV

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

Progress

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