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We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant [agreement] that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall,
without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity—a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.... — Nelson Mandela, excerpt from Inaugural Address
These words were delivered in 1994 by the newly elected president of South Africa to praise his countrymen’s
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