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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.78,0:00:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.46,0:00:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.81,0:00:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.82,0:00:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.06,0:00:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.16,0:00:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.74,0:00:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.40,0:00:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.91,0:00:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To Graça Machel and the Mandela family;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.41,0:00:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To President Zuma and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.18,0:00:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members of the government;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.45,0:00:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to heads of state and goverment past and present,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.54,0:01:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distinguished guests.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.84,0:01:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a singular honor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.89,0:01:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be with you today to celebrate a life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.90,0:01:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like no other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.95,0:01:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the people of South Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.58,0:01:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.12,0:01:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People of every race and every walk of life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.37,0:01:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world thanks you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.59,0:01:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.66,0:01:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His struggle was your struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.17,0:01:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his triumph was your triumph,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.84,0:01:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your dignity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.20,0:01:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your hope found expression in his life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.25,0:01:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your freedom. Your democracy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.58,0:01:57.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's his cherished legacy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.95,0:02:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hard to eulogize any man
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.78,0:02:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to capture in words
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.45,0:02:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just the facts and the dates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.03,0:02:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make a life, but the essential truth
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.97,0:02:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a person, the private joys,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.03,0:02:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sorrows, the quiet moments
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.34,0:02:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.98,0:02:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much harder to do so for a giant
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.42,0:02:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of history who moved a nation towards justice
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.39,0:02:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the process moved billions around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.04,0:02:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Born
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.11,0:02:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during world war one fired from court orders of power
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.03,0:02:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a boy raised herding cattle and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.90,0:02:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tutored by the elders of his Mambu tribe
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.36,0:02:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.78,0:03:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the 20th century. Like Gandhi,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.87,0:03:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would lead a resistence movement, a movement
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.42,0:03:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that at the start had little prospect for success
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.57,0:03:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Dr. King, he would give potent voice
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.84,0:03:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the claims of the oppressed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.09,0:03:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the moral necessity of racial justice
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.20,0:03:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would endure a brutal
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.36,0:03:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.58,0:03:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reached the final days of the cold war
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.48,0:03:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emerging from prison without the force
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.42,0:03:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of arms he would, like Abraham Lincoln, hold his country
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.37,0:03:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together when it threaten to break apart
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.36,0:03:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and like America's founding fathers he would erect
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.66,0:03:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.23,0:03:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A commitment to democracy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.62,0:04:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rule of law, ratified not only by
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.01,0:04:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his election but by his willingness to step down
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.98,0:04:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from power after only one term.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.43,0:04:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given the sweep
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.22,0:04:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his life, the scope of his
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.12,0:04:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accomplishments, the adoration that he so widely owned,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.90,0:04:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's tempting, I think, to remember Nelson Mandela
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.17,0:04:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an icon, smiling and serene,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.80,0:04:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,detached from the tawdry affairs of lessen men
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.08,0:04:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Madiba himself strongly resisted
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.81,0:04:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such a lifeless portrait
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.52,0:04:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.20,0:04:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, Madiba
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.96,0:05:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insisted on sharing with us his doubts and his fears
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.95,0:05:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his miscalculations along with his victories
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.15,0:05:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am not a saint", he said
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.00,0:05:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.53,0:05:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on trying".
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.08,0:05:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.87,0:05:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he could be so full of good humour
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.95,0:05:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even mischief, despite the heavy burdens that he carried
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.100,0:05:32.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we loved him so.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.95,0:05:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was not a bust made of marble, he was a man of flesh and blood
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.90,0:05:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a son and a husband, a father
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.24,0:05:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a friend and that's why we learned
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.20,0:05:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much from him and that's why we can learn from him still
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.15,0:05:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For nothing he achieved was inevitable
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.58,0:05:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the arch of his life we see a man
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.21,0:05:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who earned his place in history through struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.55,0:06:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shrewdness and persistance and faith
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.54,0:06:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he tells us what is possible
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.06,0:06:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just in the pages of history books, but in our own lives
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.41,0:06:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.78,0:06:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela showed us the power of action
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.53,0:06:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of taking risks on behalf of our ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.39,0:06:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps Mandela was right when he inherited
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.92,0:06:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.90,0:06:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sense of fairness from his father
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.89,0:06:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we know he shared with millions of black and coloured Southafricans
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.87,0:06:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the anger born of a thousand slights
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.54,0:06:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.17,0:06:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a desire to fight the system that imprisoned
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.34,0:06:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my people, he said
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.31,0:06:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like other early giants of the ANC
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.26,0:07:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Zulus and the Tambos,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.90,0:07:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.40,0:07:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Madiba disciplined his anger
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.37,0:07:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and channelled his desire to fight into organization
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.37,0:07:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and platforms and strategies
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.62,0:07:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for action, so men and women could stand up
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.19,0:07:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the God given dignity
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.71,0:07:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover, he accepted the consequences of his actions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.87,0:07:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing that standing up to powerful entrance and injustice
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.29,0:07:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carries a price
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.95,0:07:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've fought against white domination I've fought black
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.71,0:07:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,domination."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.59,0:07:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cherished the idea of a democratic and free society
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.54,0:07:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which all persons live together in harmony and
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.54,0:07:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,equal opportunities, it is an ideal which I hope to live
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.98,0:08:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for and to achieve but if needs be it's an ideal
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.08,0:08:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for which I am prepared to die.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.37,0:08:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.40,0:08:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela taught us the power of action
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.79,0:08:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he also taught us the power of ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.87,0:08:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the importance of reason and arguments
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.79,0:08:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the need to study not only those who you
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.76,0:08:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,agree with but also those you don't agree with
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.65,0:08:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.37,0:08:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extinguished by a sniper's bullet
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.21,0:08:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he turned his trial into an endowment of aparthaid
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.38,0:08:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of his eloquence and his passion
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.73,0:08:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also because of his training as an advocate
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.40,0:08:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he used decades of prison to sharpen his arguments
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.12,0:08:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.58,0:09:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the movement and he learned the language and the customs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.63,0:09:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his oppressors so that one day he might better convey
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.46,0:09:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to them how their own freedom depend upon his.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.71,0:09:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.16,0:09:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela has demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.67,0:09:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter high they must also
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.54,0:09:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be ciselled in the laws and institutions
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.57,0:09:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was practical, testing his beliefs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.54,0:09:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the hard surfice of circumstance
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.53,0:09:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and history, on core
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.92,0:09:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,principles he was unyielding which is why he could rebuff
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.92,0:09:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offers of unconditional release reminding the aparthaid regime his
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.26,0:09:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that prisoners cannot enter into contracts
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.84,0:09:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as he showed in painstaking negotiations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.07,0:10:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to transfer power and draft new laws he was
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.44,0:10:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.38,0:10:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because he was not only a leader of a movement but a skilful politician
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.21,0:10:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the constitution that emerged was worthy of this multi-racial
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.20,0:10:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,democracy, true to his vision of laws that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.58,0:10:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protect minority as well as majority rights and the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.42,0:10:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,precious freedoms of every Southafrican.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.29,0:10:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finally Mandela uderstood
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.27,0:10:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ties that bind the human spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.18,0:10:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a word in Southafrican
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.87,0:10:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ubuntu
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.14,0:10:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.99,0:10:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a word that captures
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.88,0:10:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela's greatest gift: his recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.99,0:10:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.54,0:11:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the eye, that there is a ones to humanity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.77,0:11:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we achieve ourselves by sharing
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.68,0:11:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ourselves with others and caring those around us
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.29,0:11:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can't never know how much of this
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.29,0:11:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sense was innate in him or how much was shaped
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.45,0:11:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a dark and solitary cell.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.26,0:11:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we remember the gestures large and small
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.04,0:11:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,introducing his jailers as
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.37,0:11:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,honored guests at an inaguration, taking a pitch
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.90,0:11:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a spring by uniform
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.96,0:11:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turning his family's heartbreak into a call that can run
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.34,0:11:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HIV-AIDS that reveal the depths
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.65,0:11:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his empathy and his understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.98,0:11:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He not only embodied truth he taught millions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.30,0:11:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find that truth within themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.99,0:12:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took a man like Madiba to free
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.21,0:12:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just the prisoner but the jailer as well
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.49,0:12:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show that you must trust
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.62,0:12:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others so that they may trust you
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.09,0:12:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.26,0:12:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cruel past but a means of confronting it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.54,0:12:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an inclusion and generosity and truth
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.96,0:12:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He changed laws
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.71,0:12:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he also changed hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.87,0:12:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the people of South Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.21,0:12:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for those he inspired
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.42,0:12:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the globe but he was passing ....
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.23,0:12:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a time of morning a time to celebrate a heroic life
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.41,0:12:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.79,0:12:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for self-reflection with honesty
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.30,0:13:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of our station or circumstance
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.70,0:13:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must ask: "How well have I applied
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.68,0:13:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his lessons in my own life.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.46,0:13:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a question I ask myself
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.29,0:13:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a man and as a president
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.30,0:13:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know that white South Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.40,0:13:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the United States have overcome centuries of racial
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.38,0:13:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,subjugation as was
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.88,0:13:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was true here it took sacrifice, the sacrifices of countless people
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.42,0:13:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known and unknown to see the dawn of a new day
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.26,0:13:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle and I are beneficiaries
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.37,0:13:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.92,0:13:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in America
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.46,0:13:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in South Africa and in countries all over
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.88,0:13:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the globe we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.96,0:14:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our work is not yet done
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.20,0:14:04.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The struggles that follow the victory
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.79,0:14:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formal equality or universal franchise
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.54,0:14:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.21,0:14:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,.... that came before but they are not less important
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.55,0:14:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for around the world today we still see
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.50,0:14:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,children suffering from hunger and disease, we still
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.29,0:14:28.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see run down schools, we still see young people
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.41,0:14:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without prospects for the future, around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.63,0:14:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today men and women are still imprisoned for their political
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.80,0:14:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believes and are still persecuted for what they look like
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.74,0:14:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how they worship and who they love and it is still happening today
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.21,0:14:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.21,0:14:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too must act on behalf of justice
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.06,0:15:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we too must act on behalf of peace
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.29,0:15:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are too many people that too happily embrace
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.10,0:15:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation but
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.63,0:15:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passionately resist even modest reforms, they would challange
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.13,0:15:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... of property and bringing in equality
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.48,0:15:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are too many leaders who claim solidarity
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.46,0:15:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Madiba's struggle for freedom but do not tollerate
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.80,0:15:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same for their own people
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.46,0:15:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there are too many of us
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.88,0:15:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too many of us on the side lines, confortable
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.63,0:15:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in complacency or cynicism
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.74,0:15:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when our voices must be heard, the question
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.05,0:15:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we face today
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.25,0:15:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a promotive quality and justice, how to uphold
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.13,0:15:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freedom and human rights, how to end conflict and
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.00,0:16:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sectarian war, these things do not have
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.77,0:16:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easy answers, but there were no easy answers
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.63,0:16:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in front of that child born in
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.96,0:16:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in World War I, Nelson Mandela reminds us that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.71,0:16:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it always seems impossible until it is done
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.65,0:16:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Africa shows that it is true
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.26,0:16:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Africa shows we can change, that we can
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.48,0:16:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choose a world defined not by our differences but by our common
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.54,0:16:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopes, we can choose a world defined not by conflict
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.72,0:16:45.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but by peace and justice and opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.88,0:16:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will never see
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.12,0:16:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the likes of Nelson Mandela again
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.96,0:16:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well I may say that the young people of Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.32,0:17:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the young people around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.54,0:17:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you too can make his life's work
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.46,0:17:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your own.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.26,0:17:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over thirty years ago, whilst still a student
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.88,0:17:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned of Nelson Mandela
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.30,0:17:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the struggles taking place in this beautiful land
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.61,0:17:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it stured something in me
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.82,0:17:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it woke me up to my responsibilities to other
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.84,0:17:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to myself and send me into an improbable journey
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.56,0:17:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that finds me here today
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.05,0:17:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and while I will always fall short of Madiba's
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.04,0:17:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,example he makes me want to be a better man
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.40,0:17:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he speaks
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.59,0:17:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what is best inside us
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.54,0:17:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after this great liberator is let to rest
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.84,0:17:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we return to our cities and
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.24,0:18:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and villages and rejoined our daily routine
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.76,0:18:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let us search for his
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.25,0:18:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strength, let us search for his
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.66,0:18:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,largeness of spirit somewhere inside of ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.88,0:18:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when the night grows dark
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.66,0:18:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when injustice weights heavy on our hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.41,0:18:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when our best laid plans seem out of reach
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.07,0:18:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let us think of Madiba
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.42,0:18:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the words that brought him comfort within the 4 walls
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.80,0:18:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his cell: "It matters not
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.44,0:18:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how streight the gate, how charged
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.04,0:18:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the punishment, the scroll
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.26,0:18:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the master of my fate,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.54,0:18:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the captain of my soul,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.46,0:18:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what magnificent soul it was. We will miss him deeply
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.08,0:19:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God bless the memory of Nelson Mandela.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.58,0:19:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God bless the people of South Africa.