Nelson Mandela Prison Quotations

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

One of the few advantages of prison is that you have time to read and time for reflection, ... If the comic reaches new readers, then the project will have been worthwhile.

One of the few advantages of prison life is that one has time to read. This opened our minds and forced us to re-examine some of our views.

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

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

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.