So said Rohlihlahla Nelson Mandela to a prison guard who was leading him to the dock at the Rivonia trail of 1964. The guard was pushing him forward and at Mandela’s warning the guard backed down and shied away. I recall thinking that this stand-off would surely become something epic. I remember reading his response and smiling as if I was reading about my comic-book hero.
I thought the entire ‘screenplay’ worthy of Oscar status. The hero fights for his people, only to be imprisoned for 27 years by the baddies. He gets treated like dirt but never dives into the mud to join them. Then, ‘The Robben Island Secret Seven’ turned up the heat from the inside and the baddies became extremely vulnerable on the outside.
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