evidence: Fake quotes from former South African President Nelson Mandela are a dime a dozen on the internet. In September 2020, a quote on racial divisions began to make the rounds in the wake of protests over police brutality against Black people in the U.S. [...] Snopes readers asked us if Mandela did indeed say these words. We learned that he did not. The internet had taken someone else’s words and attributed them to Mandela. [...] Razia Saleh, director of the research and archives department at the foundation, confirmed to us that this was not a Mandela quote, as she could not locate it anywhere in their collection of his speeches, and in the book, "Nelson Mandela by Himself: The Authorized Book of Quotations."