Nelson Mandela Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hunger, Born, Born Free

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

• This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Ignorance, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lonely, Taken, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lonely, Years, White

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.404, Hachette UK

• 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

  Hunger Strike, Prison, Oppression

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