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The average person could hardly be faulted for thinking the stirring words quoted above were spoken by former South African president Nelson Mandela, as they have been attributed to him in numerous web sites, films, books, and motivational posters, often cited as a passage from the speech Mandela gave upon his inauguration as the first black president of South Africa. However, these words appear in neither the inaugural address Mandela delivered in Cape Town on 9 May 1994 nor the one he delivered the following day in Pretoria, nor do they come from any other speech or writing of Nelson Mandela's. This oft-reproduced reflection about our deepest fear originated with the 1992 work A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles, the best-selling first book by author Marianne Williamson (who later sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination). Of the misattribution of her words, Ms. Williamson said:
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