Speeches of Nelson Mandela - World of Biography

EXCERPTS FROM NELSON MANDELA’S SPEECHES

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us… we were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone."

- Nelson Mandela in his Presidential Inauguration speech.

"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 mountain top of our desires."

- Nelson Mandela in 1953.

"The new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all."

– Nelson Mandela in The Philadelphia Inquirer (October 1994)

"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 mine-worker can become the head of a mine, that a child of a farm worker 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."

- Nelson Mandela