Favorite Quotes

If you're going through hell, keep going.

--- Winston Churchill

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the opressor. At a certain point one can only fight fire with fire.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

A leadership commits a crime against its own people if it hesitates to sharpen its political weapons where they have becomes less effective.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

Education is the great engine of personal development....It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

For the first time, the truth of the aphorism "clothes make the man" came home to me. If fine bodies and impressive physiques were essential to being a leader, I saw that few among us would have qualified.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

If anyone thinks I'm a pacifist, let him try to take my chickens, and he will know how wrong he is.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

I felt we were likely to hang no matter what we said, so we might as well say what we truly believe.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

Non-violence has not failed us, we have failed non-violence.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

War is a continuation of diplomacy by other means.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believeing it will not happen.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.

--- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

--- Buddha