Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Quitting is leading too.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

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

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts

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

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

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

We forgive but not forgotten

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.