Nelson Mandela Quotes

There is no power above people power.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

The power of the people is tremendous. In order to use this power, efforts, determination, dedication, and endeavors are required. If the people take action, and if the politicians and the leaders get closer to the masses of millions in their countries, no power will be able to withstand them, and no threat will affect them

All power lays in the people!

Only the people can build world history.

I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

It’s only at certain points in history that people realize just how much power that they have.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. Revolution is the proper occupation of the masses.

Revolution is the duty of the worker and the peasant masses and not of just a few heroes, hence the necessity to organize these masses and draw them into the struggle.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

There is no boss so powerful that he can overcome the people..

I never underestimate the power of the American people.

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

Our supreme governors, the mob.