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Watch this emotional clip as Nelson Mandela goes back to Robben Island and remembers his time there as a prisoner.
One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms.
Major speeches and letters from the life and career of South Africa’s first black president, organized by date, topic and readers’ favorites.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
Excerpts from 'An ideal I am prepared to die for' and other memorable speeches by Mandela.
What began as a statement by an accused prisonor became, over the 29 minutes it took Mandela to deliver it, his best known and most important speech. It was a recounting of his story up to that point, an expression of his views and a morally forceful argument on behalf of his cause.
This Week looks back at Ted Koppel’s historic interview with Nelson Mandela
“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history—and then go out and change it.
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Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Nelson Mandela met me in 1994 in the Presidential Palace in Pretoria for an exclusive interview.
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