Quote by Nelson Mandela (about Human Rights, Freedom, Revolution)

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

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

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.

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.

Nelson Mandela

USA

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

Nelson Mandela

Leaders

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

Nelson Mandela

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.

Nelson Mandela

Fear Courage

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

Nelson Mandela

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.

Nelson Mandela - 2002, on the US, preparing to invade Iraq

USA 2002

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

Nelson Mandela

Aids & HIV

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

Nelson Mandela

Money

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

Progress Motivation

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

Nelson Mandela

Ambition

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Nelson Mandela

Education

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

Nelson Mandela

Africa

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Nelson Mandela

Humanity

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

Nelson Mandela

Education

Apartheid is the rule of the gun and the hangman.

Nelson Mandela

Racism

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

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

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

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

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

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays

Revolution History

Quote by Nelson Mandela (about Human Rights, Freedom, Revolution)

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