"What I remember about him - the first thing that comes to my mind -
is kindness, obviously tremendous courage and the ability to endure. He
just has this regal quality... People just love him. He commands respect."
—Denzel Washington
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"I believe mine is a more useful life because of [his] life. I am a better human being than ever
I could have been had I not been living in the time of [his] life.
 —Sidney Poitier
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"He doesn't look at life with violence or with rage. He looks at it with strength, bravery and courage, in his own spirit. And surely that's how we should look
at it too.
—Sarah Ferguson
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"Nelson Mandela introduced to the world at large the medicine it stands sorely in need of - forgiveness."
—Maya Angelou
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"Nelson Mandela is a living spirit." —Bill Cosby
"Mr. Mandela took us to Robben Island...it became clear to me that despite the fact that his
oppressors had incarcerated his body, they had not incarcerated his mind. I knew from that point
on that I would not let adversity imprison my mind."
—Camille Cosby
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"I don't know what it takes to go through what he went through and not be angry,
and violent, and destructive or resentful... Maybe he's found the power of converting darkness into light.
—Quincy Jones
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"He's probably—of all the people in the world—the one I was most interested to meet,
because his personal leadership made all the difference."
—Bill Gates
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"[He has] demonstrated that the task of a great
leader is to take his society [from] where it is
to where it has never been... and for this, we all
owe [him] a profound debt of gratitude." —Henry
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