Nelson Mandela

(1918–2013) · South African President & Activist

Was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999

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Nelson Mandela

(1918–2013) · South African President & Activist

Was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Forget the past.
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
By ancestry, I was born to rule.
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

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