As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.”

― Nelson Mandela

“We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom.

― Nelson Mandela

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

― Nelson Mandela

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

― Nelson Mandela

“Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.”

― Nelson Mandela

“the wealthiest and most popular boy at the circumcision school.” 

― Nelson Mandela

“Great thinking comes from a great mind”

― Nelson Mandela

“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.”

― Nelson Mandela

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.”

― Nelson Mandela

“I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.”

― Nelson Mandela

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

― Nelson Mandela

“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation”

― Nelson Mandela

“I do not deny, however, that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the Whites.”

― Nelson Mandela

“It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.”

― Nelson Mandela

“In another conversation I said, “Tell me the truth. When you were leaving prison after twenty-seven years and walking down that road to freedom, didn’t you hate them all over again?” And he said, “Absolutely I did, because they’d imprisoned me for so long. I was abused. I didn’t get to see my children grow up. I lost my marriage and the best years of my life. I was angry. And I was afraid, because I had not been free in so long. But as I got closer to the car that would take me away, I realized that when I went through that gate, if I still hated them, they would still have me. I wanted to be free. And so I let it go.”

― Nelson Mandela


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