When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.
Nelson MandelaRegarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.
Nelson Mandela