A man has no power until he learns to forgive his enemies
“It is
an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realised. But, my lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal
for which I am prepared to die.” Nelson Mandela delivered a speech in the 1964 Rivonia
Trial that gave him life imprisonment.
"In a way I had never quite
comprehended before, I realized the role I could play in court and the
possibilities before me as a defendant. I was the symbol of justice in the
court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom,
fairness and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues. I realized
then and there that I could carry on the fight even in the fortress of the
enemy." Long Walk to Freedom 1994
p.458
A man has no power until he learns to forgive his enemies.
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