Quotes · Skopia

9 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Eastern Cape✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Long Walk to Freedom · 1994

★ 7.1

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

1985

★ 5.5

Autobiography and memoir

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

1995

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

1996

★ 3.9

Autobiography and memoir

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Long Walk to Freedom · 1994

★ 3.8

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

1971

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud...Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

1994

★ 2.9

Courtroom speech · Speech

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in har¬ mony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

1964

★ 2.0

The liberal must understand that the days of the Noble Savage are gone; that the blacks do not need a go-between in this struggle for their own emancipation. No true liberal should feel any resentment at the growth of black consciousness. Rather, all true liberals should realize that the place for their fight for justice is within their white society.

1970

★ 1.9