Quotes about Freedom

Overcoming fear, personal scarifies for the cause of freedom of all, and ability to see good in your enemies — No one is born hating another person because of the color of your skin, or his background, or his religion … if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

To be free is to not merely cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Friends, comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all! I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

No matter what I suffered in my pursuit of freedom, I always took strength from the fact that I was fighting with and for my own people. Bram was a free man who fought against his own people to ensure the freedom of others

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

After years of imprisonment, physical and emotional abuse, and separation from his family, Mandela said, "I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away." So Mandela's story is really the story of those two things he never gave away: his brilliant mind, and his great heart.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

And when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

Let freedom reign.

His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life.