RIP Nelson Mandela

uconnwinsnc
uconnwinsnc Posts: 1,054 Member
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A great man just passed away. RIP
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  • supplemama
    supplemama Posts: 1,956 Member
    I heard on the drive home and nearly drove off the road. This means a great deal to me. *cries*
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    The world will cry with me.
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    I just heard. pretty surreal.
  • uconnwinsnc
    uconnwinsnc Posts: 1,054 Member
    95 years and he did more to change the world than most people ever will.
  • Paula038
    Paula038 Posts: 42 Member
    Rest in peace, Madiba. Meeting you was a moment I will always treasure. You were a beacon to us all. May we follow your shining example.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    “People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
  • elka67
    elka67 Posts: 268 Member
    RIP Nelson Mandela, news I guess we've all expected this year but nonetheless deeply saddening.
    A very special man.
  • RosaliaBee
    RosaliaBee Posts: 146 Member
    This has really made me cry. He was such an iconoclast for my generation.
  • mrsduke2924
    mrsduke2924 Posts: 104 Member
    Respect to a great man, a great example, and a great leader.
    95 years of such a wonderful man that the world is lucky to have known.
    May he rest peacefully - my thoughts and prayers with his family
  • janatarnhem
    janatarnhem Posts: 669 Member
    A great man just passed away. RIP
    Never a truer word...very sad a great world leader.
  • RosaliaBee
    RosaliaBee Posts: 146 Member
    I need to post this as it's such a core tune, I wish MFP enables YouTubes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7p-RLFg2I
  • 100toloose
    100toloose Posts: 151 Member
    This is one of the saddest news of the decade! Great soul left us... Rest in peace! And thank you!
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    I need to post this as it's such a core tune, I wish MFP enables YouTubes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7p-RLFg2I

    That's exactly what was going through my head. :frown:
  • BrotherBill913
    BrotherBill913 Posts: 662 Member
    I heard on the drive home and nearly drove off the road. This means a great deal to me. *cries*

    Don't cry, smile for the changes he made and rejoice knowing how he was loved
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
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  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    R.I.P.
  • Casstevens133
    Casstevens133 Posts: 142 Member
    A very sad day - thinking of all our South African MFP colleagues and every one else in his beloved country. Rest in peace lovely man xx
  • kiwigal41
    kiwigal41 Posts: 1,059
    RIP Mr Mandela,

    He was inspiring and a great leader and such a strong soul. Anyone who saw the movie "Invictus", although Hollywood, got a glimpse of his love of life and his sense of fun. And so proud when his Springboks won the 1995 Rugby World Cup against the All Blacks!! I'm a Kiwi and was cheering for the All Blacks but if they had to lose, I'm glad it was SA that won!!!! The poem, "Invictus" just captures his spirit beautifully......



    Invictus

    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.


    William Ernest Henley
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    wow. i hadn't heard yet. i knew his health was deteriorating quite rapidly - i think he'd been hospitalized for awhile. he's off on the next great adventure.
  • jenifr818
    jenifr818 Posts: 805 Member
    .....

    Editing because as another poster suggested, not getting involved in a flame war on what should be a respectful post
  • ShadeyC
    ShadeyC Posts: 315 Member
    95 years and he did more to change the world than most people ever will.

    Absolutely. Agreed.
  • Leaping_Lemur
    Leaping_Lemur Posts: 121 Member
    I hadn't heard about this yet. RIP Madiba, you will be missed. Nkosi sikelel iafrika.
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    He and his ilk have left a great tragedy, oops I mean a great legacy, the ANC, the wonderful third world country of SA, you know the one, the one that was the gem of Africa and of course, the way I want to go out necklacing.

    There have been more whites and blacks killed since the ANC has taken over in 90s (over 20000) verses when aparteid was present from 1948-1994(less than 6000).

    Oh dont forget the bombing he planned to kill children that got him thrown in prison in the first place.

    Yeah, a great man. hmmmm

    Tacky dude. Just tacky.
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    RIP to a great human and leader. This is sad.
  • RosaliaBee
    RosaliaBee Posts: 146 Member
    Just posting to encourage other posters not to repost inflammatory posts on what ideally should be a respectful obituary thread.
  • jenifr818
    jenifr818 Posts: 805 Member
    Just posting to encourage other posters not to repost inflammatory posts on what ideally should be a respectful obituary thread.

    Fair enough; I submit my apologies for giving in to the bait
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Rest well, sir.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    He and his ilk have left a great tragedy, oops I mean a great legacy, the ANC, the wonderful third world country of SA, you know the one, the one that was the gem of Africa and of course, the way I want to go out necklacing.

    There have been more whites and blacks killed since the ANC has taken over in 90s (over 20000) verses when aparteid was present from 1948-1994(less than 6000).

    Oh dont forget the bombing he planned to kill children that got him thrown in prison in the first place.

    Yeah, a great man. hmmmm


    you are a pathetic human being. and im sure you are too much of a coward to say this to anyone's face who disagrees with you.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    there are very few people who have meant more to this world and humanity and who have inspired so many. this was the passing of a truly great man.
  • sms1986
    sms1986 Posts: 113 Member
    It was an expected event but it is a sad one, and Nelson Mandela will forever be one of history's Great Persons, and we will never forget him. We have lost a great man today, but we must be thankful that we had him here in this mortal coil for 95 years.

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