Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

For anyone paying attention in 1990, the release of Nelson Mandela from jail in South Africa was a momentous news. He was seen as a terrorist under apartheid rule. In the autobiographical Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela recounts his life from early childhood through his nearly three decades in prison. The book was first published in 1994, the same year Mandela became the President of South Africa.