More Quotes by Nelson Mandela
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.
It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.
You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.
