Long Walk To Freedom Quotes

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

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

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

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

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

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