Person Nelson Mandela Quotes

In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions. ~ Nelson Mandela

I never lost hope that this great transformation would occur ( ... ) I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there was mercy and generosity. 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.
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Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have. ~ Nelson Mandela

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. ~ Nelson Mandela

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them. ~ Nelson Mandela

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly. ~ Nelson Mandela

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his kin, 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 the opposite. ~ Nelson Mandela

Although few people will remember 3 June 1993, it was a landmark in South African history. On that day, after months of negotiations at the World Trade Centre, the multiparty forum voted to set a date for the country's first national, nonracial, one-person-one-vote election: 27 April 1994. For the first time in South African history, the black majority would go to the polls to elect their own leaders. ~ Nelson Mandela

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards. ~ Nelson Mandela

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down. ~ Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him. ~ Annie Lennox

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid. ~ Nelson Mandela

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. ~ Nelson Mandela

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place. ~ Nelson Mandela

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. ~ Nelson Mandela

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, ~ Nelson Mandela

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person. ~ Nelson Mandela

If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people. ~ Nelson Mandela

But surely they will know underneath it all I'm a good and noble person, in love with the world? Surely you get a sense of that, underneath what I'm actually saying? People must be able to smell that, underneath all the harsh words, I'm someone who still wants to own a sausage dog, and cries about Nelson Mandela. ~ Caitlin Moran

From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world. ~ Guy Spier

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more. ~ Nelson Mandela

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it. ~ Nelson Mandela