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Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. After 27 years of imprisonment, Mandela led his country's transition from apartheid to democracy with remarkable grace and a commitment to reconciliation that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”

— Nelson Mandela

Freedom

All Quotes by Nelson Mandela

“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.”

— Nelson Mandela

Family

“There is no such thing as part freedom.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

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?”

— Nelson Mandela

Strength

“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”

— Nelson Mandela

Peace

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

Politics

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

Freedom

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

— Nelson Mandela

Great

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

— Nelson Mandela

Peace

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

— Nelson Mandela

Good

“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

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.”

— Nelson Mandela

Wisdom

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

— Nelson Mandela

Society

“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”

— Nelson Mandela

Fear