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Richard Stengel on Mandela: The Lost Tapes

We the People

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Mandela's Philosophy of Non-Violence

Mandela was influenced to embrace, of course, his philosophy of non-violence. How did he practice it? Well, he did embrace non-violence and then he eventually renounced it. In one of the episodes of Mandela The Lost Tapes, you hear him say for Mahatma Gandhi, who believed in non-violence as an inviolate principle, Mandela says, I didn't see it as a tactic. And since it was a tactic, if it wasn't working, I would abandon it. That is eventually why he was sent to prison for 27 years.

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