Cyril Posted December 5, 2013 Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela has passed away at his home in Johannesburg after a long battle ... More http://mg.co.za/article/2013-12-05-nelson-mandela-dies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted December 5, 2013 Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 A great man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted December 5, 2013 Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 A wonderful man with an amazing and profound life history. Greatness like his is a rare thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 5, 2013 Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck11eDiwxL4#t=306 Sclavis-Texier-Romano - Standing Ovation (For Nelson Mandela) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck11eDiwxL4#t=306 Sclavis-Texier-Romano - Standing Ovation (For Nelson Mandela) I was just listening to this specific clip as well... amazing music, amazing man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 It's hard for me to imagine someone going through what he did and coming out of it the way he did. He imagined all of that and then lived it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 A great man. The three words that first came to my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 He endured and triumphed beyond any expectations. The greatest human in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 A true great person of the Earth. He endured a lot. RIP Mr. Mandela. The movie about his life is coming out soon. Anyone recall what rock band did the tune in the early 80s "Free Nelson Mandela"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructible! Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Anyone recall what rock band did the tune in the early 80s "Free Nelson Mandela"? Are you thinking of the Special AKA? RIP, Mr. Mandela. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Shearn Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 RIP to an astonishing human being Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 He endured and triumphed beyond any expectations. The greatest human in my experience. Agreed , he was an amazing man. His dignity and commitment to equality and forgiveness was inspiring. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Great dignity and common sense. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Anyone recall what rock band did the tune in the early 80s "Free Nelson Mandela"? Are you thinking of the Special AKA? RIP, Mr. Mandela. That's the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeith Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Not unexpected, but very sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 It's hard for me to imagine someone going through what he did and coming out of it the way he did. He imagined all of that and then lived it.With no bitterness, only love and forgiveness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 A truly inspiring man. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Until going to Johannesburg and, among other things, the Apartheid Museum, I didn't have a full appreciation. What he accomplished was world-changing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Seeing Mandela on his world tour following his release from prison was an extraordinarily moving experience. I had tears in my eyes the whole time. RIP. The world needs a few more Nelson Mandelas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) Nelson Mandela and I share a favourite poet. This is from one poem he read partly out loud in 1994 when they had the first democratically elected parliament and he called her Afrikaner à nd Afrikaan. "The child is not dead. The child lifts his fists against his mother who shouts Afrika!" .......... "The child is the dark shadow of the soldiers on guard with rifles Saracens and batons; the child is present at all assemblies and law-givings the child peers through the windows of houses and into the hearts of mothers." "This child who just wanted to play in the sun at Nyanga is everywhere. The child grown to a man treks through all Africa. The child grown into a giant journeys through the whole world. Without a pass." from "Die Kind" - "The child is not dead" by Ingrid Jonker RIP Nelson Mandela Here you can listen to him reading part of the poem. ( I chose to post some he read and some of what he left out) Edited December 6, 2013 by page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Schwartz Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 That man left a mark!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted December 7, 2013 Report Share Posted December 7, 2013 After what he went through, to not fall prey to bitterness and revenge; well, it's remarkable to say the least. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 8, 2013 Report Share Posted December 8, 2013 A friend sent this: I've no doubt that the man had to have had a lot of bitterness/rage/etc impulses. Who wouldn't? But the true mark of character imo is not what impulses we have, but how we process them, and when the impulse to pass along hurt and hatred and damage is resisted and ultimately denied, that's one less link in the chain of human degradation and one more link in the chain of human dignity. Nelson Mandela created enough of the latter links to be a whole chain unto himself. His was a spirit of constructive survival, not destructive succumbing. Life's odds certainly seem to be against the progress of dignity, but sometimes the odds get beat, and then we have something to inspire. RIP, sir, and here's hoping that your spirit lives on, again against the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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