Quotes from nelson mandela autobiography long walk

Long Walk to Freedom (first published ) is an autobiography by South Africa 's first democratically elected Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography by South Africa's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, and it was first published in by Little Brown & book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years spent in prison.

Under the apartheid government.

Quotes

• The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear.

• “I always remember the regent’s axiom: a leader, he said, 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.”

• This was an all too typical South African story.

  It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.”

• But seeing Frank and his wife began to undermine my parochialism and loosen the hold of the