Nelson Mandela Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

• Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Blessing, Voice

• Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moral, Economic, Distribution

• As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

  Nelson Mandela

  Years, Advice, Progress

• Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Play, Justice

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

• 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 cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

  Nelson Mandela

  Independent, Outspoken, Presses

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.163, Pan Macmillan

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