About Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and statesman who served as President of South Africa. Imprisoned for 27 years, he emerged to lead his country toward reconciliation and democracy.
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“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”
“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”
“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”
“There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.”