Quotes by : Nelson Mandela

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue....

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further....

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live....

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.....

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

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own....

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.