RIP Nelson Mandela

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You would take it out of context like that to defend your BS comments.
Next thing you ll make it racist to really stir the pot just move on ass hat.

You should shut up NOW.

I kinda liked this painting
This is art. Stare at the art.
seems like something I might hang on my wall, its definitely serviceable...specially considering he never got formal training. I like the composition, and the colors. Details are pretty sharp too but also has that washed out distance thing going without loosing sharpness. its got a sense of depth and feeling, mountains in the back feel far away and cold and misty, water in the foreground seems deep, the trees are nice and peaceful. I kinda want to know where that view was.

Hitler wasn't a bad artist.(Mao's poetry sucked though)

There's a bit of a difference. There have been few people throughout history that have had such a positive effect on the course of humanity as Nelson Mandela.

those people didn't changed the world. They may changed but they didn't changed people's mind. This one did.

sigh I should have seen it you 're a troll facepalm we walked into it.

Umm...I'm pretty sure that all those quotes are legitimate. Living in SA, I've heard these quite a few times. If you buy his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, you'll see some of them in there as well.

*Except the first one in the article I just linked. Not sure what the writer was thinking.

The media needs to stop painting him as a saint.

he was a freedom fighter much as america's founding fathers were, its the perogative of victors in conflicts to not be terrorists anymore and he won, that aside he was by any measure a great president for south africa long after his prison sentence, he managed to make it a functional democracy or at least as functional as any democracy gets, the worlds a lesser place without him imo