President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
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Twenty-seven years in prison for sabotage against apartheid, then four years later: South Africa's first Black president. The gap between those two facts is where the world's attention locks.
Born into Thembu royalty in 1918, Mandela studied law and joined the African National Congress in 1943, co-founding its Youth League a year later. After the National Party imposed apartheid in 1948, he rose through the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, arrested repeatedly for sedition. When non-violence failed, he co-founded the militant uMkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign until the Rivonia Trial sent him to prison for life in 1964. Released in 1990 under international pressure, he negotiated apartheid's end with President F. W. de Klerk and won the…
Sourced, dated quotes from Nelson Mandela
Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Some of the things so far told to the Court are true and some are untrue.
I have already mentioned that I was one of the persons who helped to form Umkhonto. I, and the others who started the organization, did so for two reasons.
But the violence which we chose to adopt was not terrorism.
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