There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.”
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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