Nelson Mandela cytaty (160 cytatów, strona 4)

Nelson Mandela: 160 cytatów1 Polubienie

Nelson Mandela słynne cytaty

„Życie Che jest inspiracją dla każdej istoty ludzkiej kochającej wolność, zawsze będziemy o nim pamiętać.”

„Aby odkryć, jakie zmiany zaszły w tobie, najlepiej wróć do miejsca, które jest takie jak kiedyś.”

„Gdy się zrobiło to, co się uważa za swój obowiązek wobec rodaków i ojczyzny, można spocząć w pokoju. Wierzę, że dokonałem tego wysiłku, i dlatego zasnę na wieki.”

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Źródło: Mandela w oczach rysowników, tłum. „Forum”, 20 grudnia 2013.

„Mój ojciec miał cztery żony. Każda z nich miała swój kraal. Kraal był gospodarstwem i z reguły składał się z prostej zagrody dla zwierząt, pół uprawnych i jednej lub więcej chat krytych trawą. Kraale żon mojego ojca dzieliło wiele mil i przemieszczał się pomiędzy nimi. W tych podróżach ojciec spłodził 13 dzieci, czterech chłopców i dziewięcioro dziewcząt.”

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Źródło: Adam Leszczyński, Alfabet Mandeli, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7–8 grudnia 2013.

„Jestem rozczarowany, bo wierzyłem, że powodzenie naszej pokojowej transformacji przekona także innych na świecie, że wszelkie konflikty da się rozwiązywać bez użycia siły. Nie ma nic cenniejszego niż pokój i nic gorszego niż wojna.”

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Źródło: Wojciech Jagielski, Nelson Mandela dla „Gazety”: Świat zmarnował przykład pokojowej transformacji w RPA, wyborcza.pl, 7 lipca 2004 http://wyborcza.pl/1,86736,5464386,Nelson_Mandela_dla__Gazety___Swiat_zmarnowal_przyklad.html

„Przebaczenie wyzwala duszę. Dlatego jest w nim taka siła.”

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Źródło: Mandela w oczach rysowników, tłum. „Forum”, 20 grudnia 2013.

Nelson Mandela Cytaty o ludziach

„Podróżny jadący przez kraj zatrzyma się w wiosce i nie będzie musiał prosić o jedzenie i wodę. Kiedy się zatrzyma, ludzie dadzą mu jedzenie i zaopiekują się nim.”

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o południowoafrykańskiej filozofii ubuntu.
Źródło: Adam Leszczyński, Alfabet Mandeli, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7–8 grudnia 2013.

„Choć tak różni, jesteśmy jednością. Jesteśmy ludem tęczy.”

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podczas powoływania Komisji Prawdy i Pojednania.

„Komuś, kto 27 lat przesiedział bezczynnie w więzieniu, prawdziwy odpoczynek się nie należy.”

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Źródło: Wojciech Jagielski, Pomnik pośród ludzi, wyborcza.pl, 17 lipca 2001 http://wyborcza.pl/1,86736,5464322,Pomnik_posrod_ludzi.html

Nelson Mandela cytaty

„Z bólem przyglądamy się, jak dwa mocarstwa, przywódcy wolnego świata i demokracji, rozpętują wojnę, na którą wspólnota międzynarodowa nie wyraża zgody, jak manipulują międzynarodowymi organizacjami, jak straszliwie łamią prawa i szargają godność mieszkańców kraju, w którym znaleźli się jako najeźdźcy.”

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Źródło: Wojciech Jagielski, Mandela się żegna, wyborcza.pl, 17 lipca 2004 http://wyborcza.pl/1,86736,5464352,Mandela_sie_zegna.html

„Partia Narodowa odmówiła wspierania Wielkiej Brytanii w czasie wojny i publicznie sympatyzowała z hitlerowskimi Niemcami. Jej kampania koncentrowała się wokół „czarnego zagrożenia”, a jej slogan wyborczy brzmiał: „Czarny na swoim miejscu.””

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o wyborach w 1948, które wygrała Partia Narodowa (tylko biali mogli głosować).
Źródło: Adam Leszczyński, Alfabet Mandeli, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7–8 grudnia 2013.

„Najbardziej boimy się nie tego, że jesteśmy do niczego.
Najbardziej boimy się tego, że jesteśmy potężni ponad miarę.
To nasza jasna – a nie ciemna – strona nas przeraża.
Zadajemy sobie pytanie, czy możemy być śmiali, błyskotliwi, piękni,
utalentowani i niezwykli.
A czyż właśnie tacy nie jesteśmy?”

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„Gdy bieda wciąż trwa, nie ma prawdziwej wolności.”

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Źródło: Mandela w oczach rysowników, tłum. „Forum”, 20 grudnia 2013.

„Afrykanie chcą sprawiedliwego udziału w Południowej Afryce; chcą bezpieczeństwa i uczestniczenia w społeczeństwie.”

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na swoim procesie w 1963.
Źródło: Adam Leszczyński, Alfabet Mandeli, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7–8 grudnia 2013.

„Bo żeby być wolnym, nie wystarczy zrzucić okowy, lecz trzeba żyć tak, by szanować i zwiększać wolność innych. Prawdziwy sprawdzian naszego poświęcenia dla wolności dopiero się zaczyna.”

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„Najbardziej żałuję tego, że nie zostałem mistrzem świata w boksie w wadze ciężkiej.”

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Źródło: Wojciech Jagielski, Mandela, król świata, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7–8 grudnia 2013.

„Przywódca jest jak pasterz. Podąża on za stadem; tym, którzy są najzwinniejsi, pozwala wybiegać naprzód, a pozostałym pozwala spokojnie iść, chociaż nie wiedzą, że dowodzi nimi z tylnych szeregów.”

Nelson Mandela książka Long Walk to Freedom

A leader… is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. (ang.)
Źródło: Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela: Cytaty po angielsku

“Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”

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2000s Źródło: Nelson Mandela on determination, From a letter to Makhaya Ntini on his 100th Cricket Test (17 December 2009). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes

“It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.”

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Nelson Mandela on words, Closing address 13th International Aids Conference, Durban, South Africa (14 July 2000). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes 2000s

“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a black man in a white man's court. This should not be.”

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1960s, First court statement (1962)

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“I must say that when we wanted to take up arms we approached numerous Western governments for assistance and we were never able to see any but the most junior ministers. When we visited Cuba we were received by the highest officials and were immediately offered whatever we wanted and needed. That was our earliest experience with Cuban internationalism.”

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1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)

“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.”

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During his interview at Larry King Live, (16 May 2000). Available Transcript at CNN.com: President Nelson Mandela One-on-One http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/16/lkl.00.html 2000s

“Neither Bush nor Tony Blair has provided any evidence that such weapons exist. But what we know is that Israel has weapons of mass destruction. Nobody talks about that. Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it is black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white. … Many people say quietly, but they don't have the courage to stand up and say publicly, that when there were white secretary generals you didn't find this question of the United States and Britain going out of the United Nations. But now that you've had black secretary generals like Boutros Boutros Ghali, like Kofi Annan, they do not respect the United Nations. They have contempt for it. This is not my view, but that is what is being said by many people.”

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2000s, Newsweek interview (2002)

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.”

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2000s, Iraq War speech (2003)

“I explained to the crowd that my voice was hoarse from a cold and that my physician had advised me not to attend. "I hope that you will not disclose to him that I have violated his instructions," I told them. I congratulated Mr. de Klerk for his strong showing. I thanked all those in the ANC and the democratic movement who had worked so hard for so long. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife of the great freedom fighter Martin Luther King Jr., was on the podium that night, and I looked over to her as I made reference to her husband's immortal words.
"This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy--pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own, and now the joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops — Free at last! Free at last! I stand before you humbled by your courage, with a heart full of love for all of you."”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society.”

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1960s, I am Prepared to Die (1964)

“The people of South Africa have spoken in these elections. They want change! And change is what they will get. Our plan is to create jobs, promote peace and reconciliation, and to guarantee freedom for all South Africans.”

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1990s, Inaugural speech (1994)

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“When in 1977, the United Nations passed the resolution inaugurating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, it was asserting the recognition that injustice and gross human rights violations were being perpetrated in Palestine. In the same period, the UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system.”

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1990s, The International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People (1997)

“I wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to these Palestinian and Israeli leaders. In particular, we pay homage to the memory of Yitshak Rabin who paid the supreme sacrifice in pursuit of peace.”

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1990s, The International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People (1997)

“Any man that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality.
He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.”

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2000s, The Sacred Warrior (2000)

“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
All this we owe both to ourselves and to the peoples of the world who are so well represented here today.”

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1990s, Inaugural celebration address (1994)

“As we find ourselves in jobless economies, societies in which small minorities consume while the masses starve, we find ourselves forced to rethink the rationale of our current globalization and to ponder the Gandhian alternative.
At a time when Freud was liberating sex, Gandhi was reining it in; when Marx was pitting worker against capitalist, Gandhi was reconciling them; when the dominant European thought had dropped God and soul out of the social reckoning, he was centralizing society in God and soul; at a time when the colonized had ceased to think and control, he dared to think and control; and when the ideologies of the colonized had virtually disappeared, he revived them and empowered them with a potency that liberated and redeemed.”

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2000s, The Sacred Warrior (2000)

“Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.”

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Nelson Mandela on integrity, At the British Red Cross Humanity Lecture, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London, England (10 July 2003). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes 2000s

“Now is the time for celebration, for South Africans to join together to celebrate the birth of democracy. I raise a glass to you all for working so hard to achieve what can only be called a small miracle. Let our celebrations be in keeping with the mood set in the elections, peaceful, respectful and disciplined, showing we are a people ready to assume the responsibilities of government.
I promise that I will do my best to be worthy of the faith and confidence you have placed in me and my organisation, the African National Congress. Let us build the future together, and toast a better life for all South Africans.”

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1990s, Victory speech (1994)

“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”

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1990s, Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)

“In 1980s the African National Congress was still setting the pace, being the first major political formation in South Africa to commit itself firmly to a Bill of Rights, which we published in November 1990. These milestones give concrete expression to what South Africa can become. They speak of a constitutional, democratic, political order in which, regardless of colour, gender, religion, political opinion or sexual orientation, the law will provide for the equal protection of all citizens.
They project a democracy in which the government, whomever that government may be, will be bound by a higher set of rules, embodied in a constitution, and will not be able govern the country as it pleases.”

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1990s, Inaugural speech (1994)

“When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?”

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Nelson Mandela on Aids, 46664 Concert, Tromso, Norway (11 Jun 2005). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes 2000s

“Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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These statements have been misattributed to Mandela, as being in his inaugural speech of 10 May 1994 http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mandela.html but this is not the case. Rather, they originate with author Marianne Williamson. Misattributed

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“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 will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for. But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

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1960s, I am Prepared to Die (1964)