Quotes from Nelson Mandela

I have retired, but if there is anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

When describing why the African National Congress took the fateful decision to give up on nonviolence and take up arms, Mandela writes that they had no choice, that "the oppressor defines the nature of the struggle.

It was one of the first times that I saw that it was foolhardy to go against the masses of people. It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce.