July 18 is Nelson Mandela Day, and in honor of the anti-apartheid activist and first black president of South Africa, we're reliving a famous speech he gave in Cape Town in 1990 after his release ...

(CNN)-- Whether talking about his time in prison, his struggle against apartheid, his emergence as a global icon or cracking a joke about his career, Nelson Mandela's words often have a resonance ...

Nelson Mandela was a leader of the African ... In 1963 his trial began and Mandela the icon was born. Mandela turned the trial into a platform to argue the ANC’s cause, not just to the judge ...