More from Nelson Mandela

  1. Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens…
  2. I knew what he was going to say, because we had all seen the speech. Everybody had made comments about it. And I knew he was going to say, …
  3. We consider ourselves to be comrades in arms to the Palestinian Arabs in their struggle for the liberation of Palestine. There is not a sin…
  4. Huge crowds! The day when Nelson Mandela was duly inaugurated the first democratically elected president of South Africa... And you sat the…
  5. We identify with the PLO because, just like ourselves, they are fighting for the right of self-determination. I support Israel's right to e…
  6. I heard somebody say, 'Now where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.
  7. That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I w…
  8. Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

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