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Great Liberator
m arble. He w as a m an o f flesh and
blood," O bam a said.
on b e h alf o f peace. T here are too
H e said M andela had changed
m any o f us w ho happily em brace both law s and hearts, inspiring those
M adiba's legacy o f racial reco n cili­ around him by reconciling w ith the
ation, but passionately resist even ja ile rs w ho kept him prisoner for 27
m odest reform s that w ould c h al­ years. In trusting others despite the
lenge chronic poverty and grow ing in ju stic es he su ffered , M an d ela
inequality," O bam a said, referring show ed that the cruelty o f the past
to M andela by his traditional clan m ust be co nfronted w ith truth, g en ­
name.
erosity and inclusion, O bam a said.
E xtolling M andela as practical
"W e w ill n ev er see the likes o f
but unyielding on his core p rin ­ N elso n M an d ela again," O bam a
ciples, O bam a said it w as because said. "But let m e say to the people o f
M andela could adm it to being im ­ A frica, and young people around
perfect that the w orld loved him and the w orld: Y ou can m ake his life's
Nelson Mandela became the central force in the struggle to cast off apartheid, leaving the world
continues to learn so m uch from his w ork y o u r ow n."
with indelible memories of a man of astonishing grace and good humor.
exam ple. "He was not a bust m ade o f
Joining O bam a on the 16-hour
trip trom W ashington for the cer­ A frican team , he brought the o v er­ tional offers o f freed o m from his
em o n y w ere first lady M ich elle w helm ingly w hite crow d o f 63,000 apartheid ja ile rs and even fo u n d a
O bam a, form er President G eorge W. to its feet, chanting "N elson! N elso n ! w ay to b enefit from co n fin em ent.
B ush and his wife, Laura, and form er N elso n !"
"People tend to m easu re th e m ­
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tended the m em orial service.
— and m ade its follow ers feel they h onesty, .sincerity, sim p licity, h u ­
M andela, w ho becam e one o f the belo n g ed in the new South A frica. m ility, generosity and an absence o f
w orld's m ost beloved statesm en and
A t the sam e tim e, M an d ela w as v a rie ty ," M an d ela says in one o f the
a colossus o f the 20th century w hen h im self uneasy w ith the id ea o f b e ­ m any quotations disp lay ed at the
he em erged from 27 years in prison ing an icon and h e did not escape A p a r th e id
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by his status as an u n assailab le
T housands died, w ere tortured
Saturday 9am til 2pm.
H is death clo sed the final ch ap ter sym bol o f decency and principle.
and w ere im prisoned in the decades-
in South A frica's struggle to cast o ff
A s president, he failed to craft a long struggle against ap arth eid, so
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R ock concerts celebrated his b irth ­ w orld's w idest gaps betw een rich international icon o f freed o m to ri­
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on screen. A nd his regal bearing,
graying h air and raspy voice m ade
him instantly reco g n izab le across
the globe.
A s South A frica's first black presi­
dent, the ex-boxer, law y er and p ris­
o n er No. 4 6 6 6 4 pav ed the w ay to
racial reconciliation w ith w ell-ch o ­
sen g estu res o f fo rg iv en ess. H e
lunched w ith the p ro secu to r w ho
sent him to ja il, sang the apartheid-
era A frikaans an th em at his in au g u ­
ration, and trav eled h u ndreds o f
m iles to have tea w ith the w idow o f
H endrik V erw oerd, the prim e m inis­
te r at the tim e he w as im prisoned.
His m ost m em orable gesture cam e
w hen he strode onto th e field b efo re
th e 1995 R ugby W orld C up final in
Johannesburg. W hen he cam e on
the field in South A frican colors to
co n g ratu late the victorious South
F ood
d ered the heavy cost to his fam ily o f
his decision to devote h im se lf to the
struggle against apartheid.
H e had been convicted o f treason
and sentenced to life im prisonm ent in
1964 fo r leading a cam paign o f sabo­
tage against the governm ent, and
sent to the notorious R obben Island
prison. It w as forbidden to quote him
or publish his photo, yet he and other
jailed m em bers o f his banned African
N atio n al C o n g ress w ere able to
sm uggle out m essages o f guidance
to the anti-apartheid crusade.
A s tim e , passed — the "long,
lonely, w asted years," as he term ed
them — international aw areness o f
ap arth eid grew m ore acute. By the
tim e M an d ela tu rn ed 70 he w as the
w orld's m o st fam ous political p ris­
oner. Such w ere his m ental reserves,
though, that he turned dow n co n d i­
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A frican countries as they sh ook o ff
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A frica has h eld fo u r p a rliam en tary
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South A frica's w hite rulers had
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