966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

This is a matter which requires your urgent attention, but you have not resolved it as yet,

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.