On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.
Nelson MandelaI have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.
Nelson MandelaFor me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
Nelson MandelaWhen we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
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 Mandela