Word: nelson
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South African President Nelson Mandela's visit to Harvard to receive a rare non-Commencement honorary degree is just one of a number of activities that will have the octogenarian statesman crisscrossing the east coast and Canada...
...Nelson Mandela has said "no" to Harvard before...
...Nelson Mandela is born at Qunu, near Umtata. After his father dies, Mandela is groomed for the chieftainship of Thembuland...
...there." I was told that in order to support our African brethren, we should boycott companies that invested in South Africa and send letters to the South African Embassy demanding the end of apartheid. I heard unfamiliar words used as rallying cries and the names of F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela thrown around by politicians and activists like Randall Robinson and C. Payne Lucas of Africare...
...only as I grow older and struggle with my own plans and desires to "save the world" from the evils of racism, sexism, homophobia and capitalism, that I have begun to see this man as a shining example of what can be achieved through passion and perseverance. In 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 28 years. He was sent there because he chose to fight against repression. He did what so many activists and proto-activists claim, by struggling to bring change to a country which exploited its labor, wrongfully imprisoned its citizens and encouraged full-scale segregation...