Politician Quotes

275 quotes in this collection

"Dignity is the basic building block of any stable community."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Where global globalization means that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, then something is fundamentally wrong."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Where global globalization means that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, then something is fundamentally wrong."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have."

-- Nelson Mandela

"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."

-- Nelson Mandela

"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."

-- Nelson Mandela

"It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."

-- Nelson Mandela

"It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."

-- Nelson Mandela

"I am local, but I belong to the whole universe."

-- Nelson Mandela

"I am local, but I belong to the whole universe."

-- Nelson Mandela

"We must sit down and talk about peace."

-- Nelson Mandela

"We must sit down and talk about peace."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Great anger and violence can never build a nation."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Great anger and violence can never build a nation."

-- Nelson Mandela

"There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature."

-- Nelson Mandela

"There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature."

-- Nelson Mandela

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

-- Nelson Mandela

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

-- Nelson Mandela

"None of us acting alone can achieve success."

-- Nelson Mandela

"None of us acting alone can achieve success."

-- Nelson Mandela

"The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success."

-- Nelson Mandela

"The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success."

-- Nelson Mandela

"We owe our children - the most vulnerable citizens in any society - a life free from violence and fear."

-- Nelson Mandela

"We owe our children - the most vulnerable citizens in any society - a life free from violence and fear."

-- Nelson Mandela

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."

-- Nelson Mandela

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Significant progress is impossible without massive, dedicated struggles."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Significant progress is impossible without massive, dedicated struggles."

-- Nelson Mandela

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

-- Nelson Mandela

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

-- Nelson Mandela

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."

-- Nelson Mandela

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

-- Nelson Mandela

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

-- Nelson Mandela

"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

-- Nelson Mandela

"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

-- Nelson Mandela

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

-- Nelson Mandela

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

-- Nelson Mandela

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

-- Nelson Mandela

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

-- Nelson Mandela

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

-- Nelson Mandela

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

-- Nelson Mandela

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

-- Nelson Mandela

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

-- Nelson Mandela