Nelson Mandela Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

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  Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

  Nelson Mandela

  Justice, Overcoming, Fundamentals

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

• For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

  Nelson Mandela

  Girl, Sex, Pride

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 11, 2017

• Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Trying, Dignity

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

• We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Rights, Racism

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

• We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, Black And White, People

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

• No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

  Nelson Mandela

  Earth, Dignity, Thirst

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2016

• Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Suffering, Poverty

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

• Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Government, People, Giving

  Source: www.mott.org

• At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment.
  The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Black And White, Common Humanity

• I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Attitude, Justice For All

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