Nelson Mandela's 10 most inspiring quotes

11:14 | 06.12.2013
Nelson Mandela's 10 most inspiring quotes

Nelson Mandela's 10 most inspiring quotes

Former South African president, anti-apartheid leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the father of modern South Africa and global icon Nelson Mandela has died aged 95.As tributes pour in from around the world, we examine ten of Mandela’s most inspiring quotes.10 ’Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’Speech at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2003.9‘Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.’Inaugural address in Pretoria, May 10, 1994.8‘A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.’Long Walk to Freedom (1994).7‘I stand before you filled with deep pride and joy. Pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own. And joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops – Free at last!’Speech to the African National Congress in Johannesburg, May 2, 1994.6‘We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people.’Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, December 10, 1993.5‘Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.’Inaugural address in Pretoria, May 10, 1994.4‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.’Long Walk to Freedom (1994).3‘Today we are entering a new era for our country and its people. Today we celebrate not the victory of a party, but a victory for all the people of South Africa.’Speech in Cape Town, May 9, 1994.2‘If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.’Long Walk to Freedom (1994).1‘The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.’Long Walk to Freedom (1994).(metro.co.uk)ANN.Az
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