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
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.
My family is very large. 42 million.
Racism is a blight on the human conscience
I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.
Where poverty exists, there is not true freedom, ... The world is hungry for action, not words. I am proud to wear the symbol of this global cause to action.
This project is going to bring some change to the lives of the community here,
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
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.