Quotes By Nelson Mandela

Religion, ethnicity, language, social and cultural practices are elements which enrich human civilization, adding to the wealth of our diversity. Why should they be allowed to become a cause of division, and violence? We demean our common humanity by allowing that to happen.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair and just society.

The rainbow has come to be the symbol of our nation.

Teach children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for.

Too many have suffered for the love of freedom.

To emulate the barbarity of the tyrant would also transform us into savages.

At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making.

The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!

I voted not only for myself alone but for many who took part in our struggle.

Reconstruction goes hand in hand with reconciliation.

Let us never be unmindful of the terrible past from which we come.

Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

I am also here today as a representative of the millions of people across the globe, the anti-apartheid movement, the governments and organisations that joined with us, not to fight against South Africa as a country or any of its peoples, but to oppose an inhuman system and sue for a speedy end to the apartheid crime against humanity.

Times change, we need to change as well.

In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.