Bishop Desmond Tutu speaking at the Mandela inauguration in South Africa.
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(00:00:01) Friends, (00:00:03) this is the day that the Lord has made and where will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day for which we have waited for over 300 years. This is the day of Liberation for all of us let and white together. This is a day of Celebration. My fellow citizens. Hey, I can write it call you fellow citizens for on April the 27th and 28th South Africa voted and millions of us voted for the very first time and a miracle happened. We discovered that we were South Africans and we have discovered that we are proud of that fact. Yesterday at the FNB Stadium. I send the stem for the very first time in my life, and I love it. Who will ever forget the picture of a Tokyo shefali taking the salute and as the sap and the shgf filed past and you South Africa has come to Perth. We have said a resounding now to raise him. What have we said two races in what have we said to Injustice? Whatever we said to oppression. Whatever we said to hatred what have we said to violence what have we said to alienation and Division and we have said aloud and reverberating. Yes to Freedom. Whatever. He said to Freedom. What have we said to reconciliation? Yes, what have we said to forgiveness? What every day I said to peace. What are we said to Unity we of many cultures languages and races are become one nation. We are the rainbow. People of God and one man embodies this new spirit of reconciliation in Unity One. Man inspires us all one man inspires the whole world ladies and gentlemen friends fellow South Africans. I asked you welcome our brand new State president out of the box Nelson Mandela.