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Nelson Mandela Quotes
«There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.»
«I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man»
«We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Dependence,
Power
| Keywords:
break out, cycle, dependence, exert, financially, immense, imposed, that much, vicious, vicious cycle
«Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.»
«The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the A»
«If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
Africa, named, roads, South, South Africa
«When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my feeling. The brain always dominates, says, as I have pointed out, you have a limited time to stay on Earth. You must try and use that period to transfo»
«How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
acknowledged, discrimination, legally, morally, obliged, operate, parliament, parliaments, racial, racial discrimination, represented, The Authority, trial, universally
«The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
Africa, by all means, fight back, no hit, South, South Africa, submit, To South