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NELSON MANDELA We can't afford to be killing one another. NELSON MANDELA Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we... NELSON MANDELA Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the ta... NELSON MANDELA I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including ... NELSON MANDELA Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed... NELSON MANDELA There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so ... NELSON MANDELA From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer... NELSON MANDELA When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t... NELSON MANDELA Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example... NELSON MANDELA You know, you can only lead them from behind. NELSON MANDELA Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will re... NELSON MANDELA There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the... NELSON MANDELA Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. NELSON MANDELA I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the mom... NELSON MANDELA I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstan... NELSON MANDELA In my country we go to prison first and then become President. NELSON MANDELA No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. NELSON MANDELA We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, ... NELSON MANDELA If you are poor, you are not likely to live long. NELSON MANDELA Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. NELSON MANDELA I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as part freedom. NELSON MANDELA Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. NELSON MANDELA Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challen... NELSON MANDELA It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. NELSON MANDELA