{"id":9,"date":"2010-02-12T00:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:48:54","slug":"nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/archives\/9","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I have always known that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity.\u00a0No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or\u00a0his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to\u00a0love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite\u00a0(Mandela, 1994: 542).<\/li>\n<li>I knew as well as I knew\u00a0anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who\u00a0takes away another man\u2019s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of\u00a0prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else\u2019s\u00a0freedom, just as surely as I am not truly free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed\u00a0and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity (Mandela, 1994: 544).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Mandela, N.\u00a0<em>A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela<\/em> (Boston: Little, Brown\u00a0&amp; Company, 1994).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nelson Mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebrown.co.uk\/assets\/images\/EAN\/Large\/1405500751.jpg\" alt=\"A Long Walk to Freedom\" width=\"470\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long Walk to Freedom<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Abraham Tiamiyu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always known that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity.\u00a0No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or\u00a0his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to\u00a0love, for love comes more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/abrahamtiamiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}