“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”
Family“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”
Freedom“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”
Family“There is no such thing as part freedom.”
Freedom“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.”
Courage“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”
Freedom“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?”
Strength“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”
Peace“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
Time“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.”
Politics“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Change“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.”
Politics“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.”
Freedom“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
Great“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
Peace“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
Good“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.”
Good“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.”
Government“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”
Freedom“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.”
Wisdom“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”
Society“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”
Fear