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The Struggle Is My Life

“My political beliefs have been explained in my autobiography, The Struggle Is My Life.” —Nelson Mandela.

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Nelson Mandela
1990
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history—and then go out and change it.

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Nelson Mandela
1995
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Nelson Mandela – Nobel Lecture

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.

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Nelson Mandela
1993
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The Voice of Nelson Mandela

Major speeches and letters from the life and career of South Africa’s first black president, organized by date, topic and readers’ favorites.

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Nelson Mandela
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Read the Most Important Speech Nelson Mandela Ever Gave

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.

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Max Fisher
2013
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Nelson Mandela's Five Most Memorable Speeches

Excerpts from 'An ideal I am prepared to die for' and other memorable speeches by Mandela.

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Nelson Mandela, FirstPost
2013
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“Let Freedom Ring Wherever the People’s Rights Are Trampled Upon”: What We Can Learn from Nelson Mandela Today

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.

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Richard Stengel
2020
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Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

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Nelson Mandela
1996
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela’s memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to...

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Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graca Machel (prologue)
2017
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