Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandelawas a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congressparty from 1991 to 1997...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth18 July 1918
CityMvezo, South Africa
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.
Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.
If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired
With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.
The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.
Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.