hardened him. one day he said to me, i came out mature. very rare, a mature man. i told you, he said it to more than just you, why he is adamant that i am not a saint. he said that often. i think there s a lesson for all of us. he wasn t a saint. what he was was and he was proud to call himself this he was a politician, a politician that managed to bridge these unbridgeable divides and he was very pragmatic. he had one unyielding, undeviating principle, freedom for his people. everything else was a tactic and everything else helped him achieve that goal. do you remember in 1990, the posters, the t-shirts. power to the people. right. one of the frustrations now is, he had obviously slowed down and changed. he was not the power figure that he had become. but he is gone now and now there