After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela Quote

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.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela Quote

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela Quote