Nelson Mandela's greatness transcended nation and tribe - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent

On 11 February 1990, in one of the transcendent moments of the 20th century, Nelson Mandela walked free from a jail in South Africa and gave hope to the world.

It was one of those rare events that suspend our disbelief that human nature can ever change, that some crises are not intractable, that in the end might does not always prevail. Twenty years on the world has rarely been so in need of another Mandela moment.
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