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MANDELA PERSONALLY AND HAS BEEN
A CHAMPION FOR JUSTICE SINCE THE
LATE '70s.
>> WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD THAT HE
HAD DIED, WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR
MIND?
>> STUBBORN UNTIL THE END, YOU
KNOW?
IT WAS LIKE HE WAS PLAYING THIS
-- HE WAS TRYING TO OUTSTARE
GOD, AND FINALLY, GOD BLINKED.
>> HIS LEADERSHIP WAS IN PART TO
GET A ABILITY, OF NOT ONLY HIS
CONSENSUS, BUT ALSO HIS ABILITY
TO OVERCOME THE NATURAL ANGER
AND RESENTFULNESS HE WOULD HAVE
IN PRISON FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
HE SAW THE NEED HE HAD TO
OVERCOME THAT.
HE HAD TO PUT IT ASIDE.
>> YEAH, HE REFUSED TO HATE.
NOT JUST BECAUSE HE HAD NOT
EXPERIENCED RAGE OR LIVED WITH
RAGE, BUT THAT I THINK HE
THOUGHT LOVE WOULD DO A BETTER
JOB OF LIBERATION, OF
EMANCIPATION.
BECAUSE WHAT SORT OF COUNTRY
WOULD THEY INHERIT IF PEOPLE