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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Speech at the "Lighting Your Way to a Better Future" launch, Johannesburg (July 16, 2003), 2003
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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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