Bambatha Mandela Quotes

#1. The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#2. Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#3. Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#4. I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#5. The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#6. Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#7. Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#8. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#9. Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#10. Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#11. I wondered
not for the first time
whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted? #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#12. At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#13. Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around. #Quote by Argus Hamilton

#14. A free press is one of the pillars of democracy. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#15. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#16. The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#17. a child is born free #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#18. What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge. #Quote by Muhammad Ali

#19. The common people and the great men and women are all defined by how they deal with life's unfairness: Helen Keller, Nelson Mandela, Stephen Hawking, Malala Yousafzai, and - Moki Martin. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, no matter how good you are, you still end up as a sugar cookie. Don't complain. Don't blame it on your misfortune. Stand tall, look to the future, and drive on! #Quote by William H. McRaven

#20. Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#21. I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#22. Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#23. I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#24. Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#25. Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#26. [Mandela] subsequently used words that never left me: 'Because you hold a particular position, doesn't mean that you are more important that anyone else. Your time is not more valuable that anybody else's time. If you are late you show that you have no respect for another person's time and therefore no respect for other people because you consider yourself to be more important. #Quote by Zelda La Grange

#27. In all disputes a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point, I believe, has been reached in this debate. Let us not equivocate: a tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#28. It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#29. I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#30. As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way. #Quote by John Berger

#31. The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#32. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#33. Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent ... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself. #Quote by Kevin Allen

#34. I never lose. Either I win or I learn. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#35. Forget the past. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#36. The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#37. Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. #Quote by Toni Morrison

#38. I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#39. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#40. It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#41. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. 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. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#42. I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#43. The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk #Quote by Nelson Mandela