The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness. The aggregate voice is a defiant prayer. But the spirit of the whole is processional. The power, that has said to all these things that they are damned, is dogmatic science. But they'll march! The little harlots will caper and the freaks will distract the attention and the clowns will break the rhythm of the whole with their buffooneries. But the solidity of the procession as a whole, the solidity of things which pass and pass and pass, and keep on and keep on coming, the irresistibleness of things that neither threaten, nor jeer, nor defy, but arrange themselves in mass formations that pass and pass and keep on passing. So, by the damned, I mean the excluded. .Charles Fort
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I say the damned mean the excluded, the excluded are those who are not permitted to live. Since 2 October 1987, Nelson Mandela has been incarcerated in Victor Verster Prison. His time in prison has included numerous attempts by his comrades to free him. The comrades have included men like Oliver Tambo (who was recently released), Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, Denis Goldberg, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni and many others.
Having been incarcerated for so long, Nelson Mandela has become a symbol to the people of South Africa and the entire continent of Africa. Mandela has become a symbol of hope that there is still cause for hope throughout South Africa.
Source: The Book Of The Damned
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