"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Nelson Mandela 1918-2013





Most people's lives are deserving of some sort of an epitaph. Others transcend that and seem worthy of more than we can possibly give in remembrance.

Mandela speech


The last page of Nelson Mandela's speech in 1964, just before he spent 27 years in prison.

Rest in peace, President Mandela.  I am the poorer for never having met you, but may your work continue to inspire me and those who follow...



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