Nelson Mandela

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

"No one is born hating another person."

"People respond well to honest dialogue."

"May we all stand together against injustice."

"I am convinced that it is not the ivory tower types that will solve the problems of the world."

"We were not allowed to attend movies, but we could watch them outside the cinema."

"The greatest threat to our world is not the expansion of bad people, but the silence of good people."

"I have always been a freedom fighter."

"A person is a person because of other people."

"I have always believed that, ultimately, the power in any society resides with the citizens."

"The poorest of the poor cannot be forgotten in order that the richest may become richer."

"Your value does not come from the clothes you wear, the car you drive, or the house you live in."

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."

"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."

"I have learned that while one person may not change the course of the world, it is possible to rock the boat."

"If you want peace, you have to talk to your enemies."

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

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

"I am not a prophet. I do not see the future, I am concerned with the present."

"When we see land, we can look forward with confidence."

"I dream of the day when all people shall stand up and claim their rightful place."

"Courage is not the ability to overcome fear, but the triumph over it."

"The mind of a superior man is conversant with righteousness."

"In my country we go to jail first and then become President."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Do not look the other way; act."