Nelson Mandela Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Stars, Destiny, Youth Of Today

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.427, Pan Macmillan

• One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

  Nelson Mandela

  Book, Reality, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.326, Pan Macmillan

• Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Commitment, Sacrifice

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Feb 11, 2014

• I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

  Nelson Mandela

  Yesterday, People, Today

• The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leaders Of Tomorrow, Youth Of Today, Leader

  "Nelson Mandela’s 1990 visit left lasting impression" by Peter Schworm, www.bostonglobe.com. December 7, 2013.

• Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, Years, Community

• I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Challenges, Good Man

  Source: profitmagazin.com

• Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Diversity, World

• Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, People, Support

• AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Malaria, World

  "'In face of the threat posed by Aids we must rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save people'" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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