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Yesterday, the U.S. State Department unveiled a tribute poem written by Dr. Maya Angelou for Mandela "on behalf of the American people." "Yes, Mandela's day is done," the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

In his poem, “The Hollow Men ... Both Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela are soulful leaders -- giants worthy of our admiration and praise. But wouldn’t it benefit our wellbeing and prosperity ...

If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse ... the opening lines of a poem which could also not be placed in the present selection, (a nine-part praise poem by ...

The famous poem, “Invictus,” written by English poet William Ernest Henley in 1875, includes lines such as, “My head is bloody, but unbowed,” and, “I am the master of my fate, I am the ...

This is the poem Nelson Mandela and fellow jailed anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Mlangeni used to read to each other in their Robben Island cell. It's called Invictus by William Ernest Henley ...

actors and religious figures to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. From President Barack Obama to Cuba’s Raul Castro, praise came from all sides in a four-hour memorial service at Johannesburg FNB ...

In June 1990, Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist who ... "I love doing it. I don't need praise for it. We all like a certain level of praise, but I just like helping people," Trump said.