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And I will never make that same mistake again.Mandela says that he learned to listen from his father, the chief of their village.
And I will never make that same mistake again.Mandela saw this as an opportunity to bring our country together, because previously rugby
They don't. So I said, OK, since these guy's are not going to do it, how do we then influence the young people to find the NelsonMandela inside of themselves?Excellent. You write a lot in the book, though, about this interesting juxtaposition of the private
And so I'm going to leave you with one last story of my times with Mandela, which perhaps this story will demonstrate whatMandela meant to the world, and in a way what South Africa's success means certainly for Africa, if not for the whole planet.One time I was with Mr. Mandela and another friend, and I was asked to meet this young guy.
And the elder said, if you can get to South Africa, you'll be safe.Mandela has just been made president.And you have to get to South Africa.
younger. King, in Montgomery in 1955, when he led the bus boycott, was 26 years old.Mandela, when he founds the Youth League of the African National Congress; 26 years old.Gandhi, when he starts the movement against the racist pass laws of South Africa in the early 20th century; 24 years old. The Dalai Lama, when he moves Tibetans into India; 24
My other hero, perhaps my greatest negotiation hero is Nelson Mandela.Mandela after being convicted and given a life sentence for treason in 1985 having beenjailed already for more than 20 years secretly initiated negotiations with the national party.
across from Nelson Mandela, and one day he surprised me literally surprised me and arranged for me to be with Nelson Mandela for a whole day. One of the things thatNelson Mandela President Mandela's called one of the things that President Mandela says or said I should say It's hard for me to believe he's not with us anymore isthat one of the most important roles of a leader is to make sure that the contrarian voices heard that the minority voices heard. And in today's environment,
And I will never make that same mistake again.Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize.
And I will never make that same mistake again.Nelson Mandela was behind bars for 27 years as a political prisoner of the apartheid government in South Africa.
And I will never make that same mistake again.Nelson Mandela started by being silent, and then he paid attention by listening to the concerns of people on both sides,
And I will never make that same mistake again.Nelson Mandela paid attention and he saw that what we needed as a country was to heal.
And I always think of the person that approaches me now, strip him from all those layers, because that's what I learned from Mr. Mandela is strip stripping from what heNelson Mandela, for 19 years, he decided, purposefully, every single morning, he decided, if I can change, or if I can touch one person's life
Because he understands that we each have the capacity and the potential to achieve greatness.So Mandela was not always peaceful and forgiving.
Together, we can inspire compassion, stop the violence, and bring about a revolution of love.Nelson Mandela who was a political prisoner, released, and became the president of South Africa, once said, "It always seems impossible until it's done."
The apartheid regime tore people apart.And Mandela just grabbed him by the hand.
And it's very exciting.Nelson Mandela said, "It's always impossible until it's done." The gay rights movement.
One time I was with Mr. Mandela and another friend, and I was asked to meet this young guy.And Mandela said, now you tell Niall your story.And this guy said to me, well, I was a young boy of-- I can't remember exactly.
on the inspiration of what Mandela could do for him.And Mandela's legacy has been one of embracing everybody at the same time as trying to help his own country.South Africa has never been given enough credit for the fact that she has kept her borders open to refugees.
that's a very iffy way of establishing what's accurate and what's not accurate, what's reliable and what's unreliable.Nelson Mandela. There's a particular interview you did with him after he was released from prison.
that's a very iffy way of establishing what's accurate and what's not accurate, what's reliable and what's unreliable.Nelson Mandela was removed from public view.
In another case of Aceh in Indonesia, where the guerrilla forces have been fighting for 30 years, the GAM.And Mandela was wise enough to realize that, instead of having contempt for his oppressors, he had to engage them to win their trust.
In another case of Aceh in Indonesia, where the guerrilla forces have been fighting for 30 years, the GAM.When Mandela was taken from jail in a blacked-out car, they didn't tell the jail people they were leaving.
South Africa was the champion.So Mandela leaps out of the stand, dons a Springbok jersey, and hugs the captain.It's splashed around the world, this image, because what it showed was this new president was really about reconciliation and healing.
Their languages are also being destroyed.And Mandela was on until about four years ago, when it took a special Act of Congress to get him off the terrorist list.
Forgiveness means letting go of resentments and grievances because in every state of contracted awareness that's an ingredient: resentment, grievance.Nelson Mandela said that having a grievance is like drinking poison and hoping it'll kill your enemy.It doesn't work. Hurting yourself is throwing you into contraction.
Moreover, the ANC in many ways ran on quite collaborative principles.And Mandela had a number of long time compatriots jailed with him in the same prison.In his memoir, Mandela struggled with the question should I initiate negotiations given
People remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison back in the '80s, but obviously he didn't die in prison in the '80s.
to interview Nelson Mandela and was told he was deathly sick and she couldn't meet with him.
Then you have Mandela say No. Rainbow Nation nine. Racial society. Don't worry, we forgive all sins. We cool with you. You don't even have to give us anything. The
there's Mandela. Then there's other. There's Christiane.
Rwanda and then Nelson Mandela or Martin Nelson Mandela, Rwanda. And that's basically about it. And when
President Nelson Mandela was my tata.
it, and it's referred to in the innovation. Literature is creative abrasion, and the person who taught me a lot about that was actually a man who was in the cell blockacross from Nelson Mandela, and one day he surprised me literally surprised me and arranged for me to be with Nelson Mandela for a whole day. One of the things thatNelson Mandela President Mandela's called one of the things that President Mandela says or said I should say It's hard for me to believe he's not with us anymore is
And I will never make that same mistake again.People started to call Mandela Madiba.
And I will never make that same mistake again.And when Nelson Mandela came on to do just that, wearing the rugby jersey of our national side, the Springboks,
It was when Nelson Mandela was still in prison.
What is the Mandela effect?
and the ways that Nelson Mandela was very private about his family life, but also the public and serving as an example, and the pressure of beingthe grandson of Nelson Mandela and having to outperform in school, outperform in life, and how, through transitions in school,through transitions as you grew, you came to terms with that, reckoned with that, and got into a comfortable pace with it as you grew into a man.
you travel to another school-- you hear people whispering, that's Nelson's Mandela's grandson.That's Nelson Mandela's grandson.Hey, do you know that's Nelson Mandela's grandson.
So I'm going to push you a little bit here, Ndaba, because you spend chapters 4 through 6 talking about the difficulty of your identityboth as Nelson Mandela's grandson but also sort of grappling with the decisions that your parents are making.And at the time, they were going off and studying.
Because he understands that we each have the capacity and the potential to achieve greatness.But Nelson Mandela, in the beginning, and the formation of the country, took a very different tact.
Because he understands that we each have the capacity and the potential to achieve greatness.Like-- like Nelson Mandela went through it.
Because he understands that we each have the capacity and the potential to achieve greatness.So Nelson Mandela actually trained military six months in Algeria, six months in Ethiopia with Emperor Haile Selassie--
Because he understands that we each have the capacity and the potential to achieve greatness.But Nelson Mandela took a completely different tact.
It was Nelson Mandela, and we were thinking about how this guy should have been the most angry man in Africa.
We're not Nelson Mandela.
It started with Nelson Mandela.
So Nelson Mandela, we have an anniversary of 100 years the day he was born coming up this month, next week.
So Nelson Mandela was one of the world's greatest leaders.
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