01UndatedResentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
02UndatedThere is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
04UndatedA Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest onesNelson Mandela / quote ↗
06UndatedSometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generationNelson Mandela / quote ↗
08UndatedLive life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
10UndatedI am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
12UndatedEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
13UndatedA good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
14UndatedIt reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
15UndatedI 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.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
16UndatedAnd as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
17UndatedWhen a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
18UndatedFor 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 / quote ↗
19UndatedFreedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
20UndatedWhen the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
21UndatedFor to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances freedom to others. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
22UndatedOf course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
23UndatedI cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the liberation struggle. To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one's birth, whether one acknowledges it or not...His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life...I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, 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, From 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 / quote ↗
24UndatedIf you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)Nelson Mandela / quote ↗
