"To be the father of a nation..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“We can't win a war, but we can win an election.”

“In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.”

“I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.”

“My father taught only math.”

“When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.”

“What do I owe my father? Everything!”

“From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.”

“Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.”

“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”