What does it mean?
Learning gives people the power to improve their own lives and their society, without using violence.
Who said it?
Nelson Mandela: South African president and anti-apartheid leader (1918–2013). Source: Speech in Johannesburg (2003).
More quotes by Nelson Mandela
All 5- “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.”– Often attributed to Nelson Mandela
- “It always seems impossible until it's done.”– Often attributed to Nelson Mandela
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”– Nelson Mandela
- “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.”– Nelson Mandela