Nelson Mandela

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press.

Nelson Mandela

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom.

Nelson Mandela

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Nelson Mandela

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one’s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

Nelson Mandela

I discovered for the first time people of my own age firmly aligned with the liberation struggle, who were prepared, despite their relative privilege, to sacrifice themselves of the cause of the oppressed.

Nelson Mandela

I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving.

Nelson Mandela

I don’t think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

Nelson Mandela

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Nelson Mandela