Nelson Mandela

The Nobel Peace Prize 1993
Co-Nobelist F.W. de Klerk

Award: "for work regarding peaceful termination of apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa."

Nelson Mandela's Nobel co-recipient was President Frederik Willem de Klerk who released him from prison. They had agreed to transitioning to majority rule peacefully.

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

Humor/Quotations

Humor

1. Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

2. After climbing a great hill. One only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Quotations

1. “One morning after I became president, I went for a walk in the city with some of my close friends ... I suggested to my friends that we sit in a restaurant for breakfast ... “We ordered the food, and as soon as I was ready to eat I saw a man at the front table. I sent the waiter to ask him if he wanted to sit at our table. He took his food and sat down in front of me. We all ate together without talking. He ate hurriedly, and without saying anything he left quickly. ‘My guard asked me, "Sir, does this man seem to be sick? He had his head bowed, he didn't speak, and I saw his hands tremble as he ate." I replied, "No ... this man is not sick ... do you know who this man is ...? “This man was a prison guard I had, when I was in jail. I was screaming in pain and he was looking at me and laughing, I was asking for water, he was looking me in the eyes and he was throwing water at my face. He knows I'm the president of this country now ... He was scared when I asked him to come here ... He must have thought I would treat him the way he treated me ... Using my power and saying put him in jail, that's why he started to tremble with fear ... "But I'm not that kind of person ... Revenge is not part of my plan to build our country."

2. Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world.

3. When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

4. “The right to vote, without food, shelter and health care, will create the appearance of equality and justice, while actual inequality is entrenched. We do not want freedom without bread, nor bread without freedom.”

5. Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.

6. “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.”

7. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

8. 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.

9. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

10. I never lose. I either win or learn.

11. Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

12. The greatest glory in living is not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.

13. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

14. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

15. Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

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