Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Nelson MandelaI knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
Nelson MandelaOur single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson MandelaEthiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.
Nelson MandelaI detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson MandelaRegarding 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 Mandela