We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
Nelson MandelaEducation is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Nelson MandelaA new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
Nelson MandelaOne of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
Nelson Mandela