Statesman

Kunci untuk bahagia adalah menjalani hidup seolah-olah tidak ada yang mengawasi, dan mengekspresikan diri seolah-olah semua orang mendengarkan.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Pendidikan adalah senjata paling ampuh untuk mengubah dunia.

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

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Forget the past.

Hanya politisi yang tidak turun ke lapangan yang "imun" dari melakukan kesalahan. Kesalahan merupakan hal inheren dalam tindakan politik.

Pendidikan adalah senjata paling ampuh yang dapat Anda gunakan untuk mengubah dunia.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

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.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.