966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Our morality does not allow us to desert our friends,

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.