Nelson Mandela Quotes (93+)

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made, and can be removed by the actions of human beings.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

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.

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

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

When people are determined, they can overcome anything.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.