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Quotes By Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela

Jul 18, 1918 - Dec 05, 2013

I can only say that I felt morally obliged to do what I did.

People will feel I see too much good in people. So it's a criticism I have to put up with and I've tried to adjust to because, whether it is so or not, it is something which I think is profitable.

I accepted that if you have a problem, you must face it and not gloss over it.

Once you have rid yourself of the fear of the oppressor and his prisons, his police, his army, there is nothing that they can do. You are liberated.

I don't think I was fundamentally different from what I was before I went to jail, except that in jail I had a lot of time to think about problems and to see the mistakes that we had committed. I came out mature.

Prison - far from breaking our spirits - made us more determined to continue with this battle until victory was won.