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Other Presidents and leaders are suspected of having had affairs, including--gasp!--Ronald Reagan (pre-White House), George Bush, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela and dozens of other famous and, in many cases, wonderful leaders, including just about every President of France since World...
South African President Nelson R. Mandela entranced an audience of about 25,000 distinguished guests, students, faculty, staff and community members assembled on Friday afternoon at Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre...
...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...
...would have looked at individuals who could not as weak. Today, I hope to merely support those who can while still working for the cause in my own way. As I gain a sense of my own limitations, I admire Mandela all the more. I can never be another Nelson Mandela, but I can view him as a role model. It is this attitude that I will bring to Mandela's speech this afternoon. I hope to listen and learn, but I will also come to appreciate his sacrifice...