The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
ABERJHANIAt one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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