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Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.
Speech at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebrations, April 25, 1998, 1998
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Delivered four years into Mandela's presidency, this speech honored the ANC leader Albert Luthuli while articulating the sacrificial standard of true leadership.

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