Quotes from Nelson Mandela

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

It always seem impossible until it's done....

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

My family is very large. 42 million.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

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

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

We forgive but not forgotten