Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

There can be no process more important for the future of South Africa than the realisation of the potential of our youth.

Nelson Mandela

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Nelson Mandela

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

Nelson Mandela

There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor.

Nelson Mandela

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

Nelson Mandela

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

Nelson Mandela

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Nelson Mandela