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Former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. For the millions who loved

him, in South Africa and around the world, Mandela represented strength, hope and freedom.

Keywords

Nelson Mandela, Death, Life, Biography, Obituary, Retrospective, Apartheid, Race, Racism, Sharpeville

Massacre, African National Congress, ANC, Prison, Robben Island, Prisoner, Violence, Sanctions,

Boycotts, PW Botha, FW de Klerk, Nobel Peace Prize, Congressional Gold Medal, Bill Clinton, Barack

Obama, Michelle Obama, Sasha Obama, Malia Obama, President, Madiba, Strength, Freedom

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MLA

"Nelson Mandela: Proof "One Life Can Make a Difference"." Brian Williams, correspondent. NBC

Nightly News. NBCUniversal Media. 5 Dec. 2013. NBC Learn. Web. 8 September 2018

Nelson Mandela: Proof "One Life Can Make a Difference"https://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd/browse/?cuecard=67979

Source: NBC Nightly News Resource Type: Video News ReportCreator: Brian Williams Copyright: NBCUniversal Media,

LLC.Event Date: 12/05/2013 Copyright Date: 2013Air/Publish Date: 12/05/2013 Clip Length 00:05:20

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APA

Williams, B. (Reporter). 2013, December 5. Nelson Mandela: Proof "One Life Can Make a Difference".

[Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from

https://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd/browse/?cuecard=67979

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"Nelson Mandela: Proof "One Life Can Make a Difference"" NBC Nightly News, New York, NY: NBC

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Transcript

Nelson Mandela- Proof "One Life Can Make a Difference"

BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:

Let’s take a moment here and look back at this life in the public realm at least that remember started as a

fighter against apartheid, then as a prisoner of the system, and next as president. Nelson Mandela lived a

truly remarkable life.

NELSON MANDELA: To deny any person their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

WILLIAMS: Nelson Mandela called his life a long walk to freedom, a struggle to end South Africa’s

racist system of apartheid. As a young lawyer and activist, he initially advocated peaceful resistance until

the 1960’s Sharpeville Massacre.

MAN #1: The police fired pointblank into the crowd.

WILLIAMS: South African police killed scores of anti-apartheid demonstrators. For Nelson Mandela, it

was a turning point.

MANDELA (1961): There are many people who feel that it is useless and fu-- futile for us to continue

talking peace and nonviolence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed

and defenseless people.

WILLIAMS: Mandela’s African National Congress, the ANC, was banned. He became an outlaw but he

refused to back down. Arrested in 1962, Mandela was charged with sabotage and with attempting to

violently overthrow the government. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. For years, for

decades, the struggle for justice in South Africa continued with the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as its

symbol. At times, he was forced to break rocks in the hot sun for hours at a time. The government offered

Mandela freedom if he would renounce violence. He refused.

TOM BROKAW: Today, marks the 25th year behind bars for Nelson Mandela.

WILLIAMS: South Africa became an international outcast facing sanctions, boycotts, and growing

political pressure.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: Nelson Mandela should be released to participate in the country’s

political process.

WILLIAMS: Rock concerts for the cause were broadcast around the world.

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(Excerpt from various rock concerts)

WILLIAMS: In 1989, South Africa’s hard line President P.W. Botha resigned replaced by F.W. de Klerk

who slowly began to dismantle apartheid. The ban on the ANC was lifted. And on February 11, 1990,

Nelson Mandela walked to freedom.

MAN #2: Nelson Mandela, free at last and back among his people.

MANDELA: I greet you all in the name of peace.

WILLIAMS: Twenty-seven years in prison had not weakened Mandela’s resolve.

MANDELA: Our struggle will go on as long as the government has not responded to our satisfaction.

WILLIAMS: But he also urged restraint, even forgiveness, telling blacks to, quote, "Throw their guns into

the sea and reassuring anxious whites."

MANDELA: Whites are fellow South Africans and we want them to feel safe.

WILLIAMS: Mandela’s courage and sacrifice were recognized around the world. In America, he was

welcomed as a hero. Mandela and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. The following

year in the first mixed-race election in South Africa’s history, Nelson Mandela was elected President.

MANDELA: Today is a day like no other before it.

WILLIAMS: We were the first to interview him on that first morning as president-elect. Mandela

tempered South Africa’s joy when he said healing his country would take time.

MANDELA: It cannot be done overnight. It is going to take a year, two years, even as much as five years.

So help me God.

WILLIAMS: From enemy of the state to head of state, Nelson Mandela’s walk to freedom became a

journey shared by his entire nation.

MANDELA: I have never been so excited and hopeful in my life in South Africa as I am now.

WILLIAMS: Years later, Nelson Mandela paid a return visit to his former prison cell, this time

accompanied by President Bill Clinton who later presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Mandela stepped down as President in 1999, but he lived long enough to see the United States elect its

own first black President.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: So help me God.

WILLIAMS: And in 2011, he was paid a visit in South Africa by First Lady Michelle Obama who

brought along first daughters Malia and Sasha. Admired around the world and revered at home, Nelson

Mandela’s South Africa embraced a multiracial future and reentered the family of nations. He leaves a

legacy of freedom and proof that one life can make a difference.

MANDELA: We are one country. We are one people.

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