NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela

"We could not have made an acquaintance through literature with human giants such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson and not been moved to act as they were moved to act. We could not have heard of and admired John Brown, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr, and others, and not be moved to act as they were moved to act. We could not have known of your Declaration of Independence and not elected to join in the struggle to guarantee the people life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." ~ Nelson Mandela in an Address to the Joint Session of the House of Congress, Washington DC, USA, 26 June 1990 ‪#‎LivingTheLegacy‬ ‪#‎MLKDay