Nelson Mandela Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Compassion, Safety

• Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Freedom, Home

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

• Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, School, Long

• The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Iraq, America

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

• The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

  Nelson Mandela

  Crush, Country, Powerful

• The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Black And White, Order, Organization

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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