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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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To Graça Machel and the Mandela family;
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To President Zuma and
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members of the government;
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to heads of state and goverment past and present,
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distinguished guests.
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It is a singular honor
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to be with you today to celebrate a life
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like no other.
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To the people of South Africa
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People of everyways and every walk of life
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the world thanks you
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for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.
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His struggle was your struggle
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his triumph was your triumph,
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your dignity
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and your hope found expression in his life
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and your freedom. Your democracy
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it's his cherished legacy
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It is hard to eulogize any man
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to capture in words
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not just the facts and the dates
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that make a life, but the essential truth
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of a person, the private joys,
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and sorrows, the quiet moments
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the unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul.
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How much harder to do so for a giant
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of history who moved a nation towards justice
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and in the process moved billions around the world
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during world war one fired from court orders of power
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a boy raised herding cattle and
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tutored by the elders of hix Mambu tribe
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Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator
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of the 20th century. Like Gandhi,
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he would lead a resistence movement, a movement
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that at the start had little prospect for success
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Like ..... he would get
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...voice the claims of the oppressed
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and a moral necessity of racial justice
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He would endure a brutal
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imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Krushiov
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and reached the final days of the cold war
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Emerging from prison without the force
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of arms he would, like Abraham Lincoln, hold his country
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together when it threaten to break apart
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and like America's founding fathers he would erect
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a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations
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A commitment to democracy
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and rule of law, ratified not only by
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his election but by his willingness to step down
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from power after only one term.
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Given the sweep
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of his life, the scope of his
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accomplishments, the adoration that he so widely owned,
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it's tempting, I think, to remember Nelson Mandela
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as an icon, smiling and serene,
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detached from the tawdry affairs of lessen men
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but Madiba himself strongly resisted
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such a lifeless portrait
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Instead, Madiba
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insisted on sharing with us his doubts and his fears
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his miscalculations along with his victories
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"I am not a saint", he said
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"unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps
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on trying".
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It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection
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because he could be so full of good humour
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even mischief, despite the heavy burdens that he carried
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that we loved him so.
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He was not a bust made of marble, he was a man of flesh and blood
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a son and a husband, a father
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and a friend and that's why we learned
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so much from him and that's why we can learn from him still
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For nothing he achieved was inevitable
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in the arch of his life we see a man
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who earned his place in history through struggle
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and shrewdness and persistance and faith
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he tells us what is possible
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not just in the pages of history books, but in our own lives
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as well.
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Mandela showed us the power of action
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of taking risks on behalf of our ideas
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perhaps Mandela was right when he enherited
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a proud rebelliousness, a stabborn
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sense of fairness from his father
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and we know he shared with millions of black and coloured Southafricans
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the anger born of a thousand slights
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a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments
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a desire to fight the system that imprisoned
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my people, he said
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like other early giants of the ANC
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the Zulus and the Tambos,
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Madiba disciplined his anger
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and sharold his desire to fight into organization
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and platforms and strategies
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for action, so men and women could stand up
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for the God given dignity
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moreover he accepted the consequences of his actions
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knowing that standing up to powerful entrance and injustice
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carries a price
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I fought against white domination I fought black
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domination
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I cherished the idea of a democratic and free society
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in which all persons live together in harmony and
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equal opportunities, it is an ideal which I hope to live
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for and to achieve but if needs be it's an ideal
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for which I am prepared to die.
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Mandela taught us the power of action
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but he also taught us the power of ideas
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the importance of reason and arguments
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the need to study not only those who you
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agree with but also those you don't agree with
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he understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls
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extinguished by a sniper's bullet
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he turned his trial into an endowment of aparthaid
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because of his eloquence and his passion
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but also because of his training as an advocate
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he used decades of prison to sharpen his arguments
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but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others
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in the movement and he learned the language and the customs
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of his oppressors so that one day he might better convey
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to them how their own freedom depend upon his.
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Mandela has demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough
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no matter high they must also
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be ciselled in the laws and institutions
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he was practical, testing his beliefs
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against the hard surfice of circumstance
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and history, on core
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principles he was unyielding which is why he could rebuff
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offers of unconditional release reminding the aparthaid regime his
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that prisoners cannot enter into contracts
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but as he showed in painstaking negotiations
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to transfer power and draft new laws he was
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not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal.
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And because he was not only a leader of a movement but a skilful politician
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the constitution that emerged was worthy of this multi-racial
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democracy, true to his vision of laws that
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protect minority as well as majority rights and the
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precious freedoms of every Southafrican.
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And finally Mandela uderstood
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the ties that bind the human spirit.
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There is a word in Southafrican
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ubuntu
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a word that captures
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Mandela's greatest gift: his recognition
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that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible
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to the eye, that there is a ones to humanity
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that we achieve ourselves by sharing
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ourselves with others and caring those around us
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we can't never know how much of this
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sense was innate in him or how much was shaped
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in a dark and solitary cell.
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But we remember the gestures large and small
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introducing his jailers as
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honored guests at an inaguration, taking a pitch
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in a spring by uniform
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turning his family's heartbreak into a call that can run
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HIV-AIDS that reveal the depths
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of his empathy and his understanding.
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He not only embodied truth he taught millions
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to find that truth within themselves.
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It took a man like Madiba to free
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not just the prisoner but the jailer as well
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to show that you must trust
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others so that they may trust you
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teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring
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a cruel past but a means of confronting it
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with an inclusion and generosity and truth
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He changed laws
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but he also changed hearts
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for the people of South Africa
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for those he inspired
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around the globe but he was passing ....
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a time of morning a time to celebrate a heroic life
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but I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time
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for self-reflection with honesty
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regardless of our station or circumstance
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we must ask: "How well have I applied
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his lessons in my own life.
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It's a question I ask myself
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as a man and as a president
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we know that white South Africa
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and the United States have overcome centuries of racial
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subjugation as was
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it was true here it took sacrifice, the sacrifices of countless people
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known and unknown to see the dawn of a new day
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Michelle and I are beneficiaries
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of that struggle
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but in America
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and in South Africa and in countries all over
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the globe we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact
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that our work is not yet done
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The struggles that follow the victory
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formal equality or universal franchise
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may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those
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.... that came before but they are not less important
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for around the world today we still see
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children suffering from hunger and disease, we still
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see run down schools, we still see young people
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without prospects for the future, around the world
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today men and women are still imprisoned for their political
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believes and are still persecuted for what they look like
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how they worship and who they love and it is still happening today
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And so we
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too must act on behalf of justice
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we too must act on behalf of peace
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There are too many people that too happily embrace
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Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation but
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passionately resist even modest reforms, they would challange
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... of property and bringing in equality
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there are too many leaders who claim solidarity
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with Madiba's struggle for freedom but do not tollerate
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the same for their own people
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and there are too many of us
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too many of us on the side lines, confortable
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in complacency or cynicism
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when our voices must be heard, the question
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we face today
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had a promotive quality and justice, how to uphold
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freedom and human rights, how to end conflict and
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sectarian war, these things do not have
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easy answers, but there were no easy answers
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in front of that child born in
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in World War I, Nelson Mandela reminds us that
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it always seems impossible until it is done
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South Africa shows that it is true
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South Africa shows we can change, that we can
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choose a world defined not by our differences but by our common
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hopes, we can choose a world defined not by conflict
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but by peace and justice and opportunity
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We will never see
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the likes of Nelson Mandela again
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well I may say that the young people of Africa
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that the young people around the world
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you too can make his life's work
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your own.
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Over thirty years ago, whilst still a student
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I learned of Nelson Mandela
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and the struggles taking place in this beautiful land
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and it stured something in me
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it woke me up to my responsibilities to other
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and to myself and send me into an improbable journey
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that finds me here today
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and while I will always fall short of Madiba's
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example he makes me want to be a better man
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he speaks
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to what is best inside us
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after this great liberator is let to rest
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and we return to our cities and
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and villages and rejoined our daily routine
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let us search for his
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strength, let us search for his
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largeness of spirit somewhere inside of ourselves
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and when the night grows dark
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when injustice weights heavy on our hearts
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when our best laid plans seem out of reach
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let us think of Madiba
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and the words that brought him comfort within the 4 walls
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of his cell: "It matters not
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how streight the gate, how charged
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the punishment, the scroll
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I am the master of my fate,
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I am the captain of my soul,
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what magnificent soul it was. We will miss him deeply
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May God bless the memory of Nelson Mandela.
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May God bless the people of South Africa.
Dariusz Majchrowski
There are a lot of mistakes and ommisions in the original transcrip, for example:
"during world war one fired from court orders of power" :-)
should be:
"Born during World War I, far from the corridors of power"
I hope it hasn't been translated to other languages from this version of original transcript.
Please, take a look at this transcript:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/10/politics/mandela-obama-remarks/
The speech can't be translated to other languages, unless it is revised and corrected.
Regards,
Darek