"Leaders will have to give clear and..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who have grieved and wept for them ..... Not only have I suffered during these long lonely wasted years. I am no less life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell the birthright of the people to be free ....... Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.”

“I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.”

“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”

“He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.”

“The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.”

“It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.”

“Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

“We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.”

“The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.”