One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. Nelson Mandela More Quotes by Nelson Mandela More Quotes From Nelson Mandela The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. Nelson Mandela upliftingsongjobs When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson. Nelson Mandela finding-strengthbarsneeds I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid. Nelson Mandela jailrunningbelieve A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela successinspiringinspirational Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Nelson Mandela marchdictatorway No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones. Nelson Mandela compassioninspirationinspiring No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. Nelson Mandela education-and-freedomhatewisdom It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. Nelson Mandela lonelytakenmen If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. Nelson Mandela atrocities-committedcountryamerica 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 you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are. Nelson Mandela wrathmenthinking Education is the great engine to personal development. Nelson Mandela personal-developmentachievementdevelopment Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods. Nelson Mandela racismpeopleideas 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 of political and other minorities be safeguarded. Nelson Mandela rightslovecountry Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country. Nelson Mandela meancountrypeople There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people. Nelson Mandela leadermenpeople A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation. Nelson Mandela foundationvisionwould-be We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all Nelson Mandela responsibilitygivinghands I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. Nelson Mandela long-walk-to-freedomtakenhumanity Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela futurecompassionsuffering The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind! Nelson Mandela newsracecountry
