“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say.”

— Nelson Mandela · Courage quote

Anti-apartheid leader, President of South Africa · 1918 – 2013

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who spent 27 years in prison and became the country's first Black president in 1994.

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