Mandela's light will not be extinguished

Nelson Mandela's light will not be extinguished: "Nelson Mandela will forever be a unifying global force of nature; a man whose humility confounded everyone he met; whose refusal to submit to injustice was matched only by his refusal to bear a grudge.

''Forget the past, throw your weapons into the sea,'' Mandela said in 1990 after his release from 27 years in prison under the racist South African government. Six years later, as president of the 40 million people he had helped set free, Mandela stressed again: ''Let's forget the past and concentrate on the present.'