Nelson Mandela
About
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990.
Quotes
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
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