Mandela's famous quotes

Freedom fighter, statesman, moral compass
and South Africa’s symbol of the struggle
against racial oppression.
That was Nelson Mandela, who emerged from
prison after 27 years to lead his country out
of decades of apartheid.
Here are some of his inspiring quotes:
“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.
“There is no easy walk to freedom
anywhere, and
many of us will have to pass through the
valley of the
shadow of death again and again before we
reach the
mountaintop of our desires.
“Our struggle for freedom and justice was
a collective effort…it
is in your hands to create a better world
for all who live in it.
“Out of the experience of an extraordinary
human disaster that lasted too long, must
be born a society of which all humanity
will be proud.
“We understand it still that there is no
easy road to freedom. We know it well
that none of us acting alone can acheive
success. We must therefore act together as
a united people, for national
reconciliation, for nation building, for the
birth of a new world.
“To deny people their human rights is to
challenge their
very humanity. To impose on them a
wretched life of hunger 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.
“People may say to spend 27 years in
prison you have wasted your life. But the
greatest thing for a politician is whether
the ideas to which you’ve committed your
life are still alive, whether these ideas are
likely to triumph in the end, and
everything that happened showed that we
have not sacrificed in vain.
“I came to accept that I have no right
whatsoever to
judge others in terms of my own customs,
however much I may be proud of such
customs.
“Only armchair politicians are immune
from committing
mistakes.Errors are inherent in political
action.
“Until I was jailed I never fully appreciated
the capacity of memory, the endless string
of information the head can carry.”

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