Quotes from Nelson Mandela

Een mens die een ander mens van zijn vrijheid berooft, is een gevangene van de haat, opgesloten achter de tralies van vooroordelen en kleingeestigheid.

I never lose. I either win or I learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

To make peace with an enemy, one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes your partner.

We may borrow… from foreign ideologies, but we reject the wholesale importation of foreign ideologies into Africa.

I have always believed that exercise is not only a key to physical health but to peace of mind.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

They reminded us that the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.