South Africa Quotes

• South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the fact that the region is a haven for Africa's most splendid wildlife... Then I think that we have been blessed with a truly wonderful land.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Blessed, Thinking

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• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Dream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Differences, Generosity

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

  Nelson Mandela

  Acting, Achieve, Indignity

  "Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years".

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• Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Favors, Should

  Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, May 13, 1985.

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• Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Women, Believe

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  War, Drama, Two

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Hate, Heart

  1994 LongWalk to Freedom.

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here. That was what the sheets and the suits and the ties covered up, not very well. That was what the cowardly guys calling me names from their speeding truck wanted to happen to me, to all of me: to my people. That was what would happen to me if I walked around the corner into the wrong neighborhood. That was Birmingham. That was Brooklyn. That was Reagan. That was the end of reason. South Africa was how I came to understand that I am not against war; I am against losing the war.

  June Jordan

  War, Home, Names

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• For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

  David Harewood

  Beautiful, Country, Interesting

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• We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Patricia Young

  Justice For All, People, Water

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Thinking, People, Joy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Graduation, Hope

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Hate, Education And Freedom

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2016

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Equality

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Humility, People

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Healing, Bridges, Moments

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 23, 2016

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• During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Apr 20, 2014

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• Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Hair

  Presidential Inaugural Address, 10 May 1994

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• I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Long Walks, White, Black

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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