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
It doesn't do any good to say I won't forgive her, because my child's already gone.
My hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead the youth to the joy of reading good books. That joy has been mine all my life, and it is one I wish for all South Africans.
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person,
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
It is a realization of a dream for me to be here to come and pledge my solidarity with my friend Yasser Arafat,
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.
is eager for peace. He is a passionate fighter for peace.
which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.
We must act together to bring some credibility to the process,
We... call for the rigorous implementation of the U.N. Security Council sanctions to oblige UNITA fully to implement the Lusaka peace protocol,
We owe this to the countless men, women and children across generations who carried this anthem in their hearts, in the face of bullets and the hangman's noose,