966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest among that generation of great freedom fighters.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.