Nelson Mandela Quotes - Page 13

• That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Expectations, Weakness

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• You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

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  Country, Desire, Trying

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• To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

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  Guarantees That, Fighter, Swimmer

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• By ancestry, I was born to rule.

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  Ancestry, Born

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

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  Country, Attitude, Justice For All

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• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

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  Lonely, Taken, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

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  Conviction, Social, Bases

  Twitter post from Sep 10, 2016

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• Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

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  Children, Men, Liberty

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.

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  Motivational, Single Mom, Triumph

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• If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

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  Soccer, People, Planets

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• Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

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  Peace, Agreement, Development

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

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  Spotlight, Figures, Duty

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• I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

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  Helping, Notes, Protest

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

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  Marine, Whales, Land

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• Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

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  Inspiring, Sports, Enemy

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

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  Meaningful, Suffering, Poverty

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

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  Kings, Selfish, War

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 28, 2013

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• For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

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  Purpose, Revolution, Triggers

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

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  Running, Believe, Jail

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

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  Done, Poverty, Sickness

  "Stars celebrate 90th birthday" by Damien Francis, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2008.

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• I do not deny 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.

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  Assessment, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

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  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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• The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

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  Men, People, Challenges

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

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  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

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  Eye, Imagination, Vision

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