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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Crowd cheering and clapping hands)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.....
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Crowd cheering continues...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you....
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To Graça Machel and the Mandela family..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To President Zuma and the members of the government,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to heads of states and goverment, past and present,distinguished guests..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a singular honour to be with you today to celebrate a life like no other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the people of South Africa [CROWD CHEERING]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people of every race and every walk of life, the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your dignity and your hope found expression in his life and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hard to eulogize any man, to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone’s soul.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the process moved billions around the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Born during World War I, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by the elders of his Thembu tribe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century, like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a movement that at its start had little prospect for success.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Dr King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed and the moral necessity of racial justice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emerging from prison, without the force of arms, he would, like Abraham Lincoln, hold his country together when it threatened to break apart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And like America’s Founding Fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power after only one term.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,( crowd cheeing... continues)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given the sweep of his life, the scope of his accomplishments, the adoration that he so rightly earned,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s tempting I think to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men. But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Crowd cheering.......)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, Mandela insisted on sharing with us his doubts and his fears, his miscalculations along with his victories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am not a saint", he said “unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection -- because he could be so full of good humor, even mischief,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite the heavy burdens he carried -- that we loved him so.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood -- a son and a husband, a father and a friend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that’s why we learned so much from him, and that’s why we can learn from him still. For nothing he achieved was inevitable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the arc of his life, we see a man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness, and persistence and faith.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He tells us what is possible not just in the pages of history books, but in our own lives as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela showed us the power of action; of taking risks on behalf of our ideals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps Madiba was right that he inherited, “a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness” from his father.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we know he shared with millions of black and colored South africans the anger borne of thousands slights,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people, he said.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But like other early giants of the ANC -- the Sisulus and Tambos --Madiba disciplined his anger and channeled his desire to fight into organization,and platforms,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and strategies for action, so men and women could stand up for their God-given dignity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover, he accepted the consequences of his actions, knowing that standing up to powerful interests and injustice carries a price.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and [with] equal opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Crowd cheering....)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela taught us the power of action, but he also taught us the power of ideas;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the importance of reason and arguments; the need to study not only those who you agree with, but also those who you don’t agree with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper’s bullet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and his passion, but also because of his training as an advocate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he learned the language and the customs of his oppressor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depend upon his.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was practical, testing his beliefs against the hard surface of circumstance and history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On core principles he was unyielding, which is why he could rebuff offers of unconditional release,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reminding the Apartheid regime that “prisoners cannot enter into contracts.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as he showed in painstaking negotiations to transfer power and draft new laws,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because he was not only a leader of a movement but a skillful politician, the Constitution that emerged was worthy of this multiracial democracy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,true to his vision of laws that protect minority as well as majority rights, and the precious freedoms of every South African.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a word in South Africa -- Ubuntu --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Crowd cheers....)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a word that captures Mandela’s greatest gift:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can never know how much of this sense was innate in him, or how much was shaped in a dark and solitary cell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we remember the gestures, large and small -- introducing his jailers as honored guests at his inauguration;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking a pitch in a Springbok uniform; turning his family’s heartbreak into a call to confront HIV/AIDS --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that revealed the depth of his empathy and his understanding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He not only embodied Ubuntu, he taught millions to find that truth within themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the jailer as well to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He changed laws, but he also changed hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the people of South Africa, for those he inspired around the globe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Madiba’s passing is rightly a time of mourning, and a time to celebrate a heroic life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time for self-reflection.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With honesty, regardless of our station or our circumstance, we must ask:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How well have I applied his lessons in my own life?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a question I ask myself, as a man and as a President.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that, like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As was true here, it took sacrifice -- the sacrifice of countless people, known and unknown, to see the dawn of a new day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle and I are beneficiaries of that struggle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in America, and in South Africa, and in countries all around the globe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not yet done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality or universal franchise
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger and disease.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We still see run-down schools.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We still see young people without prospects for the future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are still persecuted for what they look like, and how they worship, and who they love.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is happening today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we, too, must act on behalf of justice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We, too, must act on behalf of peace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are too many people who happily embrace Madiba’s legacy of racial reconciliation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba’s struggle for freedom,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but do not tolerate dissent from their own people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are too many of us on the sidelines,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comfortable in complacency or cynicism when our voices must be heard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The questions we face today -- how to promote equality and justice;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to uphold freedom and human rights;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to end conflict and sectarian war -- these things do not have easy answers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there were no easy answers in front of that child born in World War I.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Africa shows that is true.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Africa shows we can change, that we can choose a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But let me say to the young people of Africa and the young people around the world -- you, too, can make his life’s work your own.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 30 years ago, while still a student, I learned of Nelson Mandela
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the struggles taking place in this beautiful land, and it stirred something in me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It woke me up to my responsibilities to others and to myself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it set me on an improbable journey that finds me here today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while I will always fall short of Madiba’s example, he makes me want to be a better man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He speaks to what’s best inside us.