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Nelson Mandela, the revered South African anti-apartheid icon who spent 27 years in prison, led his country to democracy and became its first black president, died Thursday at home. He was 95. In his jailhouse memoirs, Mandela wrote that even after spending so many years in a Spartan cell on Robben Island – with one visitor a year and one letter every six months – he still had faith in human nature. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion,” he wrote in “Long Walk to Freedom.” “People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Condolences to his family, friends, and countrymen. The world has lost a great human being. RIP Mr.Mandela, sleep well, you earned it. - Pothiq Nelson Mandela, the revered South African anti-apartheid icon who spent 27 years in prison, led his country to democracy and became its f...