Nelson mandela as the father of his nation. Whose revolve and leadership through decades of oppression, and 27 years in prison, forced south africa to end the cruelty of apartheid. And whose dignity inspired not only his own homeland, but those that work for freedom and civil rights across the world. We begin with the great mans own words. The ones we will all remember of him. Difficulties he once wrote to his wife, wreak some men. But make others. Real leaders, he said, must be ready to sacrifice all, for the freedom of their people. I can rest only for a moment before with freedom, come responsibility and i dare not linger for my long walk is not yet ended. His long walk ended today, as he died at the age of 95. This is the moment of deeper sorrow. Yet what made him great is what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves. Looking back now to the headdy days in 1990, and the days after that, the excitement throughout the world even the months after that, leaf him here in