freedom Quotes

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.