Maxioms by Nelson Mandela
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much read more
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and read more
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects read more
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.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.