For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
Nelson MandelaThe truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.
Nelson MandelaI am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
Nelson MandelaThe power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Nelson Mandela