“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Mandela spoke these words in Johannesburg in 2003 — ten years after apartheid ended, nine years after becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president. He had spent 27 years in prison, much of it studying, reading, earning a law degree by correspondence, teaching other prisoners.
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