966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

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

As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

It is a realization of a dream for me to be here to come and pledge my solidarity with my friend Yasser Arafat,

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

The time is always right to do right