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Agents of Non Violent Justice can all cheer on Nelson Mandella's birthday today, July 18th. In the tradition of Martin Luther King, Ghandi and inspired by Jesus himself who demanded Peter put back his sword and not slice the face of the oppressor, an entire country was born from the racist past of apartheid oppression.
Nelson Mandella languished in jail for years for standing against what he knew to be an institutional evil.
Institutional evils and injustices still exist in many places in the world, some even under the sanctimonious color of established religions that give no breathing room to dissent.
It could have turned out differently. Mandella could have started a violent revolution in the streets resulting in mass slaughter blood baths. But he didn't.
And after a 'Truth and Reconciliation' Commission, the real facts got aired in daylight and people came to terms with what had to change. It is a model for everywhere, and I mean everywhere.
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