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Nelson Mandela on Freedom

1918–2013 South Africa

← All quotes by Nelson Mandela

8 quotes

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

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

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.

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.

Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.

Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

[T]o 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.

Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nelson Mandela (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.