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Nelson Mandela Quotes
«Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
active, colonial, communism, Communists, correspond, corresponds, countries, freedom of movement, Movements, objects, played, role, short-term, term
«Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.»
«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Elections
| Keywords:
Africa, Britain, elections, observers, The Observer, The United States of America, United States of America
«This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy - pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such calm, patient determination to reclaim this count»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
Pride and, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, shown
«Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been convicted before this court may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed, I will still be moved as men are always moved, by their consci»
«Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organizatio»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
Africans, apartheid, black and white, campaign, campaign of, decisive, defiance, ended, South, South African, South Africans
«I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who hav»
«I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
awards, cared, fighter, freedom fighter, jointly, Nobel, Nobel Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel prize, notify, prize, prizes
«I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
cry out, discrimination, legal, legal profession, owed, practice of law, The Practice, unjust, upholding
«It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Country,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
attacks, conducted, consistently, followed, liberation, organizations, peaceably, persecutions, regardless, well known