S Nelson* Quotes

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

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

Quitting is leading too.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Money buys everything, even true love.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck.

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.