"How can a man who committed adultery and left his wife and children be Christ? The whole world worships Nelson too much. He is only a man."
— Nelson Mandela

January 1, 1970

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Evelyn Mase, Mandela's first wife, as quoted by David James Smith, (2010), in Young Mandela. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 59; as something she said to journalist Fred Bridgland after Mandela's release being compared to the second coming of Christ.