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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“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live.”
“Happy endings usually don't work for me. I like open endings. I trust the reader's imagination.”
“I felt that even if one did not have an ideal vision of society, one could have one's work to do.”