Nelson Mandela Quotes

n Mens het letterkunde in jou lewe nodig, want daarsonder gaan jy agteruit.

We are deeply concerned, both in our country and here, of the very large number of dropouts by schoolchildren. This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow... try as much as possible to remain in school, because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

I never lose, I either win or learn

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

انسانها آفريده شده اند؛
که عشق بورزند و به آنها عشق ورزیده شود....!!!
اشیاء ساخته شده اند؛
که مورد استفاده قرار بگیرند...!!!
دلیل آشفتگی های دنیا این است؛
که به اشياء عشق ورزیده می شود
و انسانها مورد استفاده قرار میگيرند.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa.

"A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution."

[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino el que es capaz de conquistarlo.

la virtud y la generosidad son recompensadas de un modo inescrutable.