Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.
Nelson MandelaOur children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.
Nelson MandelaEven if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
Nelson MandelaThere is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson MandelaThere was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.
Nelson Mandela