How exactly was he supposed to communicate with the outside world? He didn’t even get to see his daughters until he’d been in prison for a decade. His correspondence was limited and heavily censored. He was kept in a separate wing of the prison with other political prisoners.
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I don’t know; he didn’t specifically call out terrorism, either, but he stopped doing it. It’s like if Lenin, on the eve of the October revolution, said, “nope, we’re going to do this peacefully. No one hurt the aristocrats or the bourgeoisie.”
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Even in 1990 The New York Times was running editorials like “Why Won’t Mandela Renounce Violence,” and handwringing about whether he’d follow in the footsteps of Gandhi or Lenin. So when he governed like a peacemaker it was a big deal.https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/21/opinion/why-won-t-mandela-renounce-violence.html …
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