Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. – Nelson Mandela
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africas leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. – Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. – Jon Meacham