“I simply don't understand why the Nobel academy gave him a peace prize or why Charlie Dimmock and Alan Titchmarsh gave him a new garden. And I don't see why he should be given a statue in Trafalgar Square, either. If we're after someone who stands up for the oppressed, what about Jesus? I feel fairly sure he never blew up a train.”

—  Jeremy Clarkson

Mandela Just Doesn't Deserve His Pedestal, p. 239
The World According to Clarkson (2005)

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