The pursuit of social justice Part 2

For some people, one example that illustrates the efficacy of protests is that of Mandela. Away from the limelight, his voice completely censored from reaching the world and for part of the time languishing in solitary confinement, he managed to protest incommunicado from the depth of the dungeons in a way that forced the whole world to pay attention.

He led a decisive campaign of defiance within prison walls. Relating how Mandela earned the respect of his fellow inmates and prison warders, his fellow inmate at the notorious Robben Island maximum security penitentiary Dr. Neville Alexander once said: “He always made the point, if they say you must run, you must insist on walking. If they say you must walk fast, insist on walking slowly.”