Amy’s Reviews > Mandela: An Audio History > Status Update

"When you see your friends being shot at for just walking in the street, it does something to you. Therefore you look around - what are the alternatives? Do I become like my mother? And the alternative was for me not to be like mom, as great as she was, and to go and fight." There was a divorce between many young people and their parents.

"I don't why they (the police) decided to shoot (the children protestors). I can only think it was black life and it didn't count. Life of African people had always been cheap."

1976 - I didn't realize that there were children protests who had bullets fired on them. I need to research more into South African history.

"Mandela and many other anti-apartheid leaders were in jail or in exile. The movement was leaderless until South Africa's children rose up to galvanize the struggle once again."

"I had made a statement where I had called for armed struggle. Naturally, there was a great deal of resistance from the leadership but I believed we were moving in that direction because the government left us with no other alternative." "The adoption of an armed struggle after a struggle that had been well known for its non-violent and peaceful nature was quite startling."

8,500 civil disobedience arrests in 1952. WOAH

Wow. Wow wow wow. Hearing the audio files of radio broadcasts and speeches really makes this history come to life.