How Mandela Became a Hero

• When in jail for 27 years, Mandela was offered time and again his freedom if he would simply renounce the violence. He never did. He only renounced the violence upon being freed.

• Mandela never lost hope. He remembers playing Creon in Sophocles’ “Antigone.” He enjoyed Greek plays, taking from them that “a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.”

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