Nelson Mandela Berühmte Zitate
Der lange Weg zur Freiheit
Original engl.: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
„Apartheid ist die Herrschaft der Gewehre und der Henker.“
Aufruf nach dem Aufstand in Soweto 1976, veröffentlicht vom ANC am 10. Juni 1980, anc.org.za anc.org.za http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/64-90/anvil.html
Original engl.: "Apartheid is the rule of the gun and the hangman."
auf dem Live8-Konzert in Johannesburg, 2. Juli 2005, bbc.co.uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4646231.stm
Original engl.: "History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks. I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate."
"No Easy Walk to Freedom", Rede auf dem ANC-Kongress, 21. September 1953, anc.org.za http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1950s/sp530921.html
Original engl.: "To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration of every free man."
Nelson Mandela Zitate und Sprüche
„Armut in Verbindung mit fehlender Bildung. Wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass Bildung alle erreicht.“
Antwort auf die Frage, welches nach Aids momentan das größte Problem der Welt sei. Interview im Reader's Digest, April 2005 rd-india.com http://www.rd-india.com/newsite/other/facetoface_apr05.asp
Original engl.: "Poverty and lack of education, those two combined. It’s important for us to ensure that education reaches everybody."
„Das Wahlrecht steht im Zentrum des Freiheitskampfes.“
Rede während der „Convention for a Democratic South Africa“, 20. Dezember 1991", anc.org.za http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1991/sp911220.html
Original Zulu: "Ilungelo lokuvota iyona nto ewumongo womzabalazo we nkululeko."
Grußwort am internationalen Tag der Solidarität mit dem Palästinensischen Volk, Pretoria, 4. Dezember 1997, http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1997/sp971204b.html
Original engl.: "I have come to join you today to add our own voice to the universal call for Palestinian self-determination and statehood. We would be beneath our own reason for existence as government and as a nation, if the resolution of the problems of the Middle East did not feature prominently on our agenda."
Rede am 10. Mai 1994 in Pretoria, nach seiner Wahl zum ersten schwarzen Präsidenten Südafrikas, anc.org.za http://www.anc.org.za/nelson/show.php?id=3132
Original engl.: "Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world."
bei seiner Vereidigung zum Präsidenten am 10. Mai 1994, dadalos-d.org http://www.dadalos-d.org/deutsch/Menschenrechte/Grundkurs_MR5/Apartheid/Apartheid/Entwicklung/suedafrika_heute.htm
„Wir wissen nur zu gut, dass unsere Freiheit unvollständig ohne die Freiheit der Palästinenser ist.“
Grußwort am internationalen Tag der Solidarität mit dem Palästinensischen Volk, Pretoria, 4. Dezember 1997 anc.org.za http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1997/sp971204b.html
Original engl.: "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
“The nationalisation of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the ANC, and a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable. Black economic empowerment is a goal we fully support and encourage, but in our situation state control of certain sectors of the economy is unavoidable.” - Erklärung vom 15. Januar 1990, die am 25. Januar 1990 veröffentlicht wurde. Mail & Guardian 26 Jan 1990 http://mg.co.za/article/1990-01-26-we-will-nationalise-mandela
Nelson Mandela: Zitate auf Englisch
Nelson Mandela on friendship, From his unplubished autobiographical manuscript written in 1975. 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
1970s
Nelson Mandela on humour, From an interview with Tim Couzens, Verne Harris and Mac Maharay for Mandela: The Authorized Portrait, 2006 (13 August 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
1960s, I am Prepared to Die (1964)
Suzanne Belling, "Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel", http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/12309/edition_id/237/format/html/displaystory.html jweekly.com, 22 October 1999
Attributed
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
2000s, The Sacred Warrior (2000)
Suzanne Belling, "Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel", http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/12309/edition_id/237/format/html/displaystory.html jweekly.com, 22 October 1999
Attributed
Nelson Mandela on freedom of expression, At the international press institute congress (14 February 1994). 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
1990s
Address http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=3384 at The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (4 December 1997)
1990s
1990s, Inaugural celebration address (1994)
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
2000s, Newsweek interview (2002)
He, too, grappled with and died in the effort to make a contribution to the just solution of the same great issues of the day which we have had to face as South Africans.We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
1990s, Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1993)
Interview with Gavin Evans, Soweto (15 February 1990) recounted in COVID-19 lockdown: Can you do Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison cell workout? https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19-lockdown-can-you-do-nelson-mandelas-prison-cell-workout?video_autoplay=true, 7 April 2020
1990s
Quelle: As quoted in The Sunday Star (29 November 1991), South Africa
“The collapse of education is a collapse of the nation.”
The statement is misattributed to Mandela by Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam at a press conference https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202005/19/P2020051900367.htm, which was found by the media https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/19/history-exam-row-hong-kongs-carrie-lam-dismisses-claims-of-political-intervention-appears-to-misquote-mandela/ to be misattribution.
Misattributed
“Experience is the best legacy men could possess and never desert in life.”
Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
1980s