It's just struck me that Nelson Mandela has done more for humanity than anyone else for 150 years, since Abraham Lincoln!
Nelson Mandela Was A 'Terrorist'
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People stick the terrorist label on those who use violence in ways or for causes they don't approve of.
I'd say he's up there but not at the top. Gandhi was doing more or less the same thing decades before Mandela.
The folks who came up with the Polio vaccine and penicillin were far more helpful to people around the world than Mandela was. They have saved millions of lives around the world.
Indeed. Personally I don't see any problem with using violence to fight apartheid if peaceful means aren't working.
things take time to improve...the same could be said about slavery in the US if one looks at ghetto/gang life today....
it's all relative, freedom is freedom to choose
why would you decide for others what is best for them, perhaps poverty and freedom are better than the security of living on a leash, perhaps for you personally it would not be... it is a philosophical dilemma and not one with an easy answer...our own native communities have similar issues
viewing something in black and white seldom reveals truth
although it does make people comfortable
Well spoken, Sal.
I think you find the answers first hand in this, Petros
Nelson Mandela honoured with state funeral in South Africa - World - CBC News
I don't know, and neither do you. I know people that immigrated to Canada from China, many many years ago. She has lived under the yoke of oppression. She told me it is better to die trying to be free than live without freedom. Freedom at any cost is how they lived here. I was born in Canada from immigrant parents. I have no concept of the yoke of oppression. How could one possibly judge what is best for another human being?
Black and white is more than just lack of colour.
If you have no opportunity, the freedom to chose between nothing, nothing or nothing is a benefit in what way?
I've been to SA BTW.
I've been to SA BTW.
You have been there but you are not SA. You have stated that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. That is your held belief. Now you must justify that held belief or consider changing your opinion. You must keep things black and white. You must examine the issue from a narrow view point or else...consider changing your opinion.
What is your definition of a terrorist?
