A Niagara At Large Brief By Doug Draper
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter. … But I can rest only for a moment, for with this freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.”
Nelson Mandela
These were among the final words from Nelson Mandela’s moving autobiography ‘ Long Walk To Freedom’.
Unfortunately, Nelson Mandela’s long walk ended this December 5th at age 95.
Along with the likes of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and a very few others over the past 100 years, he was one of the greatest beacons of light for peace and freedom in our time.
U.S. President Barack Obama, in a statement he made on the passing of Nelson Mandela, just a few minutes before this posting, quoted Mandela once saying; “I am not a saint, unless you consider a saint to be a sinner who tried.”
This noble and courageous man’s trying should be an inspiration to all of us to do just a little bit to make this world better for each and every one of us.
I know it is cliché at this point, but I will finsish it off with these words any way; We may very well never, in our lifetime, see his like again.
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela
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Mandela had the patience of a saint and thus achieved his goal. What I do find ironic is that every US network is saturated with his life story while my hero and heroine (this is a blatant lie) Reagan and Thatcher denounced him as a terrorist. What an about face! Of course Saint Reagan has been made a demi god and the stuff of mythology in the US while I think he was a tyrant and the start of the current US downward spiral for the average person. Amazing how time eventually reveals the true nature of people.
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