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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African leader in the fight against apartheid and institutional racism in South Africa. He was imprisoned for twenty-seven years on Robben Island, refusing to be released early in exchange for renouncing his beliefs. Four years after his release from prison, Mandela became the first Black president elected in a fully representative election in South Africa, and he served as head of state from 1994–1999. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 2014.

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Nelson Mandela and the Power of Elders

While unusual to found an organization at age 89, even more unusual is founding an organization with the purpose of saving the world at the end of one’s ninth decade. Nelson Mandela never lost hope.

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Archive Interview: Nelson Mandela

Speaking to Reader’s Digest in 2005, South Africa’s former president revealed the faith in humanity that helped him to endure persecution—and forge a nation.

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Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95

The question most often asked about Mr. Mandela was how, after whites had systematically humiliated his people, tortured and murdered many of his friends, and cast him into prison for 27 years, he could be so evidently free of spite.

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Nelson Mandela: 12 Letters from the Desk of a Freedom Fighter

Look back on Nelson Mandela's life and career through a collection of his own writings.

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Nelson Mandela and 'The Foundations of One's Spiritual Life'

Mandela's interior thoughts during his 27 years in prison have only recently come to light. Honesty, humility, a readiness to serve others, he said, were 'qualities within easy reach of every soul.'

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The Day Nelson Mandela Walked Out of Prison

It would be impossible to overstate the electric sense of anticipation that coursed through South Africa as Mandela's release grew imminent.

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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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First Person: Riding Along on Nelson Mandela’s First U.S. Tour

For Americans of all races, the Mandela visit was a celebration of triumph of right over wrong and an opportunity to see a giant of history.

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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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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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