Nelson Mandela's most famous quotes (and one that isn't his)
The top 3 according to 23 votes from people: Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. · For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. · A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.. (Updated Sep 29, 2019.)
From the Rivonia trial to Long Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela's words with their source (speeches, letters and memoirs), plus the famous 'our deepest fear' passage, which is actually by Marianne Williamson.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 13
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Refusing the government's conditional release offer, 1985.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
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It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Statement from the dock at the Rivonia trial, 20 April 1964.
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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
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What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.
Walter Sisulu's 90th birthday, 2002.
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
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The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced — between the unpalatable and the inedible.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995), on the food on Robben Island.
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The time for the healing of the wounds has come.
Inaugural address as president, 10 May 1994.
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Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.
Launch of the Mindset Network, 2003.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Misattributed: it is not in his inaugural speech; it is by Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love (1992).
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In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
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