Quotes from Nelson Mandela

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

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

There sit our sons", he said, "young, healthy and handsome, the flower of the Xhosa tribe, the pride of our nation. We are here to promise them manhood, but it is an empty promise because we Xhosas and all black South Africans, are a conquered people.

un líder es como un pastor que permanece detrás del rebaño y permite que los más ágiles vayan por delante, tras lo cual, los demás les siguen sin darse cuenta de que en todo momento están siendo dirigidos desde detrás.

No era la falta de oportunidades lo que limitaba a mi pueblo, sino la falta de oportunidades.

It never hurts to see the good in someone, they often act the better because of it.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

la virtud y la generosidad son recompensadas de un modo inescrutable.

grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Niemand wordt geboren met haat jegens iemand vanwege zijn huidskleur, zijn afkomst of zijn godsdienst. Als mensen het haten kunnen leren, kunnen ze ook leren liefhebben, want liefde bereikt het hart van de mens veel vanzelfsprekender dan haat.

Out of the motorcar (I learned later that this majestic vehicle was a Ford V8) stepped a short, thickset man wearing a smart suit.

This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king,

Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. [...] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.

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.

Een leider, zegt hij, is als een herder. Hij blijft achter de kudde en laat de behendigste voorlopen, waarop de anderen volgen, zonder te beseffen dat ze steeds vanuit de achterhoede worden geleid.

significado coloquial se aproxima más a "revoltoso". Yo no creo que los nombres predeterminen el destino, ni que mi padre adivinara de algún modo cuál iba a ser mi futuro, pero en años posteriores, tanto mis amigos como mis parientes llegaron a atribuir a ese nombre las muchas tempestades que he causado, y a

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom,

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration

A slogan is a vital link between the organization and the masses it seeks to lead. It should synthesize a particular grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it.

My bans extended to meetings of all kinds, not only political ones. I could not, for example, attend my son's birthday party. I was prohibited from talking to more than one person at a time. This was part of a systematic effort by the government to silence, persecute and immobilize the leaders of those fighting apartheid and was the first of a series of bans on me that continued with brief intervals of freedom until the time I was deprived of all freedom some years later.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.