Nelson Mandela Quotes

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...

إن المرء قد يصل في لحظة معينة إلى الإيمان بأن مصدر الظلم لم يعد في الخارج بل في داخله هو نفسه.

عندما يُحرم الإنسان من الحياة التي يريدها ويؤمن بها، فلا خيار له إلا أن يتحول إلى خارج على القانون.

Let your courage rise with danger.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

الجبناء يموتون مرات عديدة فى حياتهم والشجاع يموت مرة واحدة

Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray blades of grass seemed to smile and shine in the sun. It was at such times, when I perceived the beauty of even this small, closed-in corner of the world, that I knew that some day my people and I would be free.

if you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart -

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. Africans of my generation — and even today — generally have both an English and an African name. Whites were either unable or unwilling to pronounce an African name, and considered it uncivilized to have one. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.

الاستسلام لليأس هو السبيل إلى الإخفاق والموت المحقق

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one’s partner.