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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. ike 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-- 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.
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