Nelson Mandela
is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time:an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racialoppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and thepresidency of his country.Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century ofimprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling andinspiring political drama in the world.As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa'santiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation towardmultiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere asa vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.To millions of people around the world, Nelson Mandela stands,as no other living figure does, for the triumph of dignity and hopeover despair and hatred, of self-discipline and love over persecution and evil.
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