Who Said What (13) - 曼德拉逝世

Nelson Mandela: "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Barack Obama: "The day he was released from prison it gave me a sense of what human being can do when they're guided by their hopes and not by their fears."

Pope Francis: "A great light has gone out in the world."

Muhammad Ali: "He taught us forgiveness on a grand scale. His was a spirit born free, destined to soar above the rainbows. Today his spirit is soaring through the heavens. He is now forever free."

Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader imprisoned since 2002: "From within my prison cell, I tell you our freedom seems possible because you reached yours."

John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana: " It wasn't just Nelson Mandela who was transformed during those years of his imprisonment. We all were. And Africa is all the better because of that."

Clinton Yates, online columnist: "On the medal stand that includes Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Mandela is at the top."

Robert Schrire, political analyst at University of Cape Town: "Perhaps a criticism of Mandela, and I think it's fair one, is that he concentrated too much on the symbolic side of reconciliation and didn't do nearly enough to try and bring a better life for the population.

t-rama, Washington Post reader: "All 'liberators' suffer from one of two criticisms--either that the 'liberation' was short lived and lost both politically and economically Or that they had abolished political, not economic inequality."

David N. Dinkins, former New York City Mayor: "The thing that fascinated me most about this great man was his total absence of bitterness."

Adam, New York Times reader: "Perhaps only now will South Africans feel they can vote for parties other than the African National Congress without betraying Mandela."

Pierre de Vos, law professor: "Nelson Mandela was not a saint. We would dishonor his memory if we treated him as if he was one. Like all truly exceptional human beings, he was a person of flesh and blood, with his own idiosyncrasies, his own blind spots and weaknesses."