Nelson Mandela Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

• Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Doe, Blame

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

• A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Society, Refined

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

• The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Order, Choices

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

• It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Party, Responsibility

• We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moving, Past, Forgiving

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Powerful, Past

• I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Past, Leaving

  Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

• We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Air, Joy

• True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Doe, Forget

  Nelson Mandela (1996*). “Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the African National Congress: January 8 1996”

• No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Positive Thinking, Past, Matter

• Forget the past.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Past

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “Nelson Mandela, symbol of resistance and hope for a free South Africa: selected speeches since his release”

• Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Giving, Justice

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2016

• I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Thinking, Views

  Source: profitmagazin.com

• South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Forgiving, Never Forget

• We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Letting Go, Past, Greatness

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