"We need to exert ourselves that much..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.”

“The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.”

“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.”

“Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”

“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”

“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.”

“The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.”

“Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.”