Nelson Mandela's words often have a resonance far beyond their original context. Here are a few of his memorable quotes. On his freedom struggle: "I have walked that long road to freedom.

It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela toiled virtually every day for 13 years, digging up rock, some of which paved the road we were driving on. The sun was so relentless, the quarry so bright ...

If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy, and was the country's ...