Nelson Mandela Apartheid Quotes

#1. If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

Nelson Mandela

#2. If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

Nelson Mandela

#3. Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person ...

Elvis Presley

#4. It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

Lynne Tillman

#5. There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

Nelson Mandela

#6. When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Ian McKellen

#7. How would you even begin to make a hush puppy, what in the world was in one? Nothing to do with a puppy, surely. Garnett had long known, though he didn't much like to admit it, that God's world and the better part of daily life were full of mysteries known only to women.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#9. The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.

Nelson Mandela

#10. To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

#11. A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#12. Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.

Rajneesh

#13. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Pope John Paul II

#14. It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

Nelson Mandela

#15. I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Nelson Mandela

#16. I don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's one of the last, great geniuses in fashion.

Gaspard Ulliel

#17. South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems ... It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.

Nelson Mandela

#18. Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

#19. I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela

#21. We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

Nelson Mandela

#22. Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

Bryan Adams

#23. I am Anil Kapoor's daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life.

Sonam Kapoor

#24. My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Nelson Mandela