Nelson Mandela

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation.

Nelson Mandela

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Nelson Mandela

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

Nelson Mandela

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors.

Nelson Mandela

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..

Nelson Mandela

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

Nelson Mandela

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.

Nelson Mandela

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Nelson Mandela

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

Nelson Mandela

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

Nelson Mandela