All Quotes

"I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man."

"I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind."

"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."

"I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."

"You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that."

"I explained to the crowd that my voice was hoarse from a cold and that my physician had advised me not to attend. "I hope that you will not disclose to him that I have violated his instructions," I told them. I congratulated Mr. de Klerk for his strong showing. I thanked all those in the ANC and the democratic movement who had worked so hard for so long. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife of the great freedom fighter Martin Luther King Jr., was on the podium that night, and I looked over to her as I made reference to her husband's immortal words. "This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy--pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own, and now the joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops — Free at last! Free at last! I stand before you humbled by your courage, with a heart full of love for all of you.""

"It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. 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 true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning."

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended."

"Varium et mutabile semper Femina."

"Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor."

"Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi; Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago."

"‘Moriemur inultae, Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’"

"Furens quid Femina possit."

"Litus ama."

"Possunt, quia posse videntur."

"Decus et tutamen."

"Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est."

"Bella, horrida bella."

"Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito."

"Obscuris vera involvens."

"Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est."

"Fidus Achates."

"Procul, O procul este, profani!"

"Nunc animis opus, Aenea, nunc pectore firmo."

"Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes, Et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late, Sit mihi fas audita loqui: sit numine vestro Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas."

"Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna."

"Malesuada Fames."

"Consanguineus Leti Sopor."

"Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore."

"Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando."

"Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos."

"Vendidit hic auro patriam."

"Non, mihi si linguae centum sunt oraque centum Ferrea vox, omnis scelerum comprendere formas, Omnia poenarum percurrere nomina possim."

"Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes."

"Mens agitat molem."

"Quisque suos patimur manis."

"Te tua fata docebo."

"Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos."

"Tu Marcellus eris."

"Manibus date lilia plenis."

"Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes."

"Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo; Majus opus moveo."

"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."

"Pedibus timor addidit alas."

"Arte magistra."

"O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos."

"Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?"

"Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis."

"Volvitur Euryalus leto, pulchrosque per artus It cruor inque umeros cervix conlapsa recumbit: Purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratro Languescit moriens; lassove papavera collo Demisere caput, pluvia cum forte gravantur."

"Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit."