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In reply to the discussion: 12 Mandela Quotes That Won't Be In the Corporate Media Obituaries [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)35. Absolutely, CherokeeDem!
The Prisoner
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He was allowed one visitor a year for 30 minutes. He could write and receive one letter every six months. But Robben Island became the crucible which transformed him. Through his intelligence, charm and dignified defiance, Mandela eventually bent even the most brutal prison officials to his will, assumed leadership over his jailed comrades and became the master of his own prison. He emerged from it the mature leader who would fight and win the great political battles that would create a new democratic South Africa.
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He, like other Africans who refused to accept Colonial rule, was on the US Terrorist list
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#4
I believe that's one of the major reasons for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Octafish
Dec 2013
#41
"I would like to take this opportunity to join the Norwegian Nobel Committee and pay tribute to
pampango
Dec 2013
#8
"while recognizing differential aptitudes and talents, he holds that these are gifts from God to be
lindysalsagal
Dec 2013
#25