Mandela's statement from the dock: I am prepared to die!

I AM PREPARED TO DIE!

Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the start of the Rivonia Trial took him two weeks to prepare and four hours to read, but it was the last sentence that stunned the courtroom into a thirty second silence: “But if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” […]

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