966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

If you don’t allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The Liberty Bell is “a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world.”

To truly lead one’s people, one must also truly know them.

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.

The so-called ‘Palestinian autonomous areas’ are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.