Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice
Nelson MandelaYoung people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
Nelson MandelaThere is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
Nelson MandelaAt the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.
Nelson Mandela