Loud Thinking

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

~Nelson Mandela

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians; without the resolution of conflicts in East Timor, the Sudan and other parts of the world.

~Nelson Mandela

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

~Nelson Mandela

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

~Nelson Mandela

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

~Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

~Nelson Mandela

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

~Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until its done.

~Nelson Mandela

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

~Nelson Mandela

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

~Nelson Mandela