William Finnegan Quotes

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

There was a close relationship between Mandela and the CBC.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Politics hasn't changed, but I've changed.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

You cannot change the psychology of a people by a coup d'etat, or by some quick process of political chemistry convert an idle nobleman into a serious worker, or a medical student into a full-blown statesman.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

Nothing in American politics is forever.

If the [Ugandan President] Yoweri Museveni of 1986 were to meet the Museveni of today they would fight on sight - they would shoot each other.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.

We are going to change Brazil!

I'm not a doctor. I can only assess that Donald Trump that I knew in 2003 and the Donald Trump that I knew in 2017. And he is not the same man.

Those who voted for me voted for change. Together we can change Poland.

The world is evolving.

Progress does not occur without change.