Men who take great risks often suffer great consequences: Madiba’s book on Abraham Lincon’s assassination.
There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is kind of a repellent. Yet poverty often brings out the generosity in others. Madiba’s book on poverty in Alexandra.
In love, unlike in politics caution is not usually a virtue. Madiba’s book on politics versus love for Didi.
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or savour their songs. Madiba’s book on language with the then Queen of Lesotho MantseboMoshoeshoe.
BIRTH OF A FREEDOM FIGHTR: Madiba’s recollection of 26th June 1952 Defiance Campaign.
“I had engaged in a just cause and had the strength to fight for it and win. The campaign freed me from any lingering sense of doubt or inferiority I might still have felt; it liberated me from the feeling of being overwhelmed by the power and seeming invincibility of the white man and his institutions. But now the white man had felt the power of my punches and I could walk upright like a man, and look everyone in the eye with the dignity that comes from not having succumbed to oppression and fear. I had come of age as a freedom fighter.”