Nelson Mandela says: “People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do…
Nelson Mandela says: “Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”
Nelson Mandela says: “I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.”
Nelson Mandela says: “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings…. What I am condemning is that one power, with a president…
Nelson Mandela says: “Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when…
Nelson Mandela says: “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,…
Nelson Mandela says: “When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed…
Nelson Mandela says: “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”
Nelson Mandela says: “Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights…
Nelson Mandela says: “The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is…