Nelson Mandela

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Nelson Mandela

None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success.

Nelson Mandela

Nothing is black or white.

Nelson Mandela

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don’t have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

Nelson Mandela

Of 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

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Nelson Mandela

On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters … We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

Nelson Mandela

On which aspect one concentrates in judging others will depend on the character of the particular judge. As we judge others so we are judged by others.

Nelson Mandela

One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa.

Nelson Mandela

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

Nelson Mandela