Nelson Mandela Quotes About Debate

Quotes about: Debate

• A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Real, Issues

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Ideas, Knowing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

• In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Finals, May, Debate

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

• In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.

  Nelson Mandela

  Party, Believe, Tragedy

  "Mandela's Aids speech: Excerpts". news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2000.

• There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, Issues, People

  Source: www.mott.org

• There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: www.mott.org

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