Mandela Quotes

“When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with faith.”
― Professor Pezhman Mosleh

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Nelson Mandela once said, "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, "I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Then there was Mr Mandela. Everybody knew about Mr Mandela and how he had forgiven those who had imprisoned him. They had taken away years and years of his life simply because he wanted justice. They had set him to work in a quarry and his eyes had been permanently damaged by the rock dust. But at last, when he had walked out of the prison on that breathless, luminous day, he had said nothing about revenge or even retribution. He had said that there were more important things to do than to complain about the past, and in time he had shown that he meant this by hundreds of acts of kindness towards those who had treated him so badly. That was the real African way, the tradition that was closest to the heart of Africa. We are all children of Africa, and none of us is better or more important than the other. This is what Africa could say to the world: it could remind it what it is to be human.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe

“To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Sometimes it's important to dare to dream - small or big - like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking - the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters - through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all - love IS all we have and need.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Extraits du poème: Sagesse
Quand là-bas, au Ghana, Obama refaçonne la Baule,
De l’Afrique que font les africains ?

Rappelle-toi le message de Senghor te disant :
Pense par toi-même, pour toi-même !
De Mandela qui t’enseigne à devenir mieux que ce tu es,...”
― Abdou Karim GUEYE Poésie Comme un amas de pyramides inversées

“Tuve ocasión de aprender que el valor no consiste en no tener miedo, sino en ser capaz de vencerlo. He sentido miedo más veces de las que puedo recordar, pero siempre lo he ocultado tras una máscara de audacia. El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino el que es capaz de conquistarlo.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature... he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But they soon learned after arrival at his house for a meal that he merely wanted to engage with them to get an understanding of they criticism... Madiba didn't attempt to change their minds. He would have an informed opinion after having engaged with them, and even though he occasionally changed an opinion by offering correct information, they never parted feeling hostile.”
― Zelda la Grange

“It was irrelevant how much time you spent with Madiba. Your relationship with him depended on how you felt about him in you heart.”
― Zelda la Grange

“When I have no visitors over weekends, I remain the whole day in my pyjamas and eat samp.”
― Jennifer Crwys Williams, In the words of Nelson Mandela: A little pocketbook

“Tribute: Nelson Mandela

Tonight, I salute not the sun.
Tonight, I salute not the stars.
Tonight, I laud a hero.
Tonight, I extol a legend.
Tonight, I hail Nelson Mandela.

"He came from the sky," some say.
"He came from the stars," others claim.
"He came from Heaven," many declare.
"He came from God," all affirm.

Madiba, you are my teacher.
Madiba, you are my elder.
You are my father.
You are my hero.

I won't break even if they imprison me.
I won't shake even if they threaten me.
I won't weep even if they kill me.
I won't yield even if they assassinate me.

You are our symbol of courage.
You are our emblem of hope.
You are our model of faith
You are our paragon of love.
You are our champion.
You are our hero.
You are our legend.

We fight for you.
We suffer for you.
We are even prepared to die for you.
You opened our eyes.
You opened our ears.
You opened our minds.
You opened our hearts.

How sharp your mind was.
How strong your heart was.
How pure your soul was.
You were a fox,
you were a lion,
but you were also a dove.

Long live Madiba, Africa remembers you!
Long live Madiba, Africa honors you!
Long live Madiba, Africa celebrates you!
Long live Madiba, the world loves you!!!”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Nelson Mandela was already a name synonymous with freedom and wisdom, justice and principle, by the time I took my first steps. However, it was not until over a decade later, when in my late teens I started to do a little reading and research of my own, that I even heard mention of Cuba's contribution to anti-apartheid. This obvious omission, along with the simplistic narratives that surrounded Mandela and Castro, was a valuable lesson to me about how the powerful craft history and news media to their own ends.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“If Madiba has taught our nation anything, it is that humility is a superpower.”
― Bianca Bowers, Cape of Storms

“No matter how slim a needle may look , a fowl can never confuse it for a worm”
― Ebai Emmanuel Ewangi

“Every night I get called to a place of love and solitude. I meet with all my heroes and sheroes. Its a place of quiet and peace, in my sleep”
― Loraine Masiya Mponela

“Mandela a avut o ieşire din închisoare grandioasă, elegantă şi plină de demnitate, fiind un lucru extrem de puternic la care a putut asista întreaga lume. Însă, în timp ce-l priveam mergând pe drumul prăfuit, mă întrebam ce părere o fi având el despre ultimii 27 de ani din viața sa şi dacă nu cumva era mânios din nou. Mulți ani mai târziu, am avut şansa de a-l întreba acest lucru. I-am spus: „Ați fost un om extraordinar, căci v-ați invitat temnicerii să ia parte la învestirea dvs. ca preşedinte, ați făcut chiar presiuni la guvern pentru asta. Spuneți-mi adevărul însă, nu cumva erați iar plin de mânie?” El a răspuns: „Ba da, eram mânios şi simțeam şi teamă, doar abia ce fusesem eliberat. Însă, când am simțit acea mânie adunându-se în mine, mi- am dat seama că, dacă îi uram în continuare după ce ieşisem de după gratii, atunci însemna că încă eram prizonierul lor.” Apoi a zâmbit şi a spus: „Fiindcă voiam să fiu liber, am dat drumul la tot.”
― Joyce Meyer, Healing the Soul of a Woman: How to Overcome Your Emotional Wounds

“MBEKI Pierre, born in 1905, Scotland.
MANDELA Giovanna Rosaria l, born in the 1800s, Italy.
ZUMA Andreas, born in 1750, Pologne.
TWALO July, born in 1850, USA.
MALEMA Jannis, born in 1750, Latvia.

These are Surnames of key people in Africa. But they are also a few examples of how people really received their Surnames in Africa ...through colonisation.”
― Mitta Xinindlu