Quote

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

Nelson Mandela

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nelson Mandela
Age: 95 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 18
Died: 2013
Died: December 5
Autobiographer
Former President Of South Africa
Lawyer
Political Activist
Political Prisoner
Politician
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Mandela
Prisoner 46664
Madiba
Mind
Hearts
People
Minds
Happen
Spiritual
Process
Reconciliation
Happens
Framework
Ends
Legal
Heart
Requires

More quotes by Nelson Mandela

Image
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela
Image
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
Image
Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.
Nelson Mandela
Image
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson Mandela
Image
Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?
Nelson Mandela
Image
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
Image
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Image
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
Nelson Mandela
Image
No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.
Nelson Mandela
Image
Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
Nelson Mandela
Image
The truth is we are not yet free we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.
Nelson Mandela
Image
I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.
Nelson Mandela
Image
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
Nelson Mandela
Image
History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
Nelson Mandela
Image
Nothing is black or white.
Nelson Mandela
Image
I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
Image
Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
Nelson Mandela
Image
It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.
Nelson Mandela
Image
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson Mandela
Image
There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.
Nelson Mandela