Long Walk To Freedom Quotes

#1. When you are young and strong ... you can stay alive on your hatred" ... but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"
Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

#2. It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. ========== The Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)

Anonymous

#3. God performs miracles, but even for a man to walk on water, action is required.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.

George R. Stewart

#5. To be free ... to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life
that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.

Paul Robeson

#6. The cottage pie was about as wholesome and straightforward as you could get. It was food for winter evenings and happy days. And the salad was rich, complicated, a little bit sweet, and seemed to be trying way too hard to be impressive. We'd both served each other a metaphor.

Alexis Hall

#7. Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has his bigger picture in view!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I'm so sorry, Jace." His eyes gleamed in the darkness. "I don't understand why mundanes always apologize for things that aren't their fault." "I'm not apologizing. It's a way of - empathizing. Of saying that I'm sorry you're unhappy.

Cassandra Clare

#9. With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

Nelson Mandela

#10. Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up?

Chloe Neill

#11. There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor

Nelson Mandela

#12. When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Nelson Mandela

#13. All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Edmund Burke

#14. Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Diane Neal

#15. The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

Cus D'Amato

#16. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

Daphne Du Maurier

#17. The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Nelson Mandela

#18. I would say that as our struggles mature, they produce new ideas, new issues, and new terrains on which we engage in the quest for freedom. Like Nelson Mandela, we must be willing to embrace the long walk toward freedom.

Angela Y. Davis

#19. I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.

Slavomir Rawicz