Monday, 9 December 2013

TUESDAY DECEMBER 10th RACING POST 2013.


 
TUESDAY DECEMBER 10th RACING POST 2013
WEEK MONDAY DECEMBER 9th TO SUNDAY DECEMBER 15th
http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd
Ch4 Racing Channel
 
Alastair Down writes:
(RP 07.12.2013 p 15)
 
"Mandela proves the human heart can rise above adversity. "
 
"IN COMMON with many of my generation, it was only after the ending of the indescribable vile apartheid system that I visited South Africa as much to go and stand witness on Robin Island as for any other reason.
 
"To see the miniscule cell in which Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years'  incarceration was both chastening and painfully moving .
 
"That Mandela should emerge from the long torture of his imprisonment on that cherished February day in 1990 as a man without bitterness, rancour or vengefulness was perhaps his most extraordinary triumph.
 
"It was his incorruptible generosity of soul which set him utterly apart and he restored the largely lost faith that, a handful of times in history, a figure arises with the power to remind us that even through the most terrible adversity there is nothing as unquenchable or invincible as the human heart. "
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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