Words and good morning. Thank you to all of you. Im thrilled to be here. Are here to celebrate those who have dedicated their lives Rights Movement and we would be remiss if we did not speak as to mica did a little while ago to honor the passing movementshe greatest heros Nelson Mandela. He was an activist, a prisoner conscious, a statesman and above all a teacher and he taught us that the power of forgiveness is greater than the power of hate and the differences of race and matter less than our shared humanity. His presence on this earth will but his lessons will endure in the hearts of millions. In fact become a event as part of what tom talked about an awful lot. It is a sadness ma nelson thisla has passed from world but it is very much the tame kind of story that tom lantos talked about so much. We come together because of that blazer. Inary trail a man admired from san mateo to pest. Gton to bud da as much as we are all in awe of awe of his family and what a wonderful big family i
They admire most, and Nelson Mandela will likely as not be the answer. Other world figures are usually famous within their own professional disciplines, sections of society, Interest Groups or age groups. Many attract cynicism or play at indifference. Nelson mandelas achievement was to combine fame, affection and admiration from virtually anyone anywhere in the world. So if, i believe, he is more iconic than anybody else, then why . His life story of sacrifice, courage, endowns and suffering in the great and noble cause of democracy, liberty and justice, places him alongside a very select few; suffragists, gandhi himself, anticolonial african leader, che get around rah, often sang suu kyi to name just some. But mandela towers above all of them in popular imagination. Perhaps in part because he was the first such figure to be projected to the worlds peoples through the powerful media of the modern Global Television and the internet. He was quite simply far better known than any comparab
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