Can anybody lend me a copy?
Need to read something inspiring now!
This was an excellent post with a nice anecdote featuring Jerry West and Bill Russell.
I read Nelson Mandela’s book “Long Walk to Freedom” several years ago.
On the cover, there’s a quote from the Boston Globe, saying the book “should be read by every person alive.”
That’s an absurdly big statement, but I could not agree more. Twenty years to the day after Mandela’s release from prison, it’s a good day to pick up that book again.
It’s an amazing story, for a number of reasons, but to me the lasting message is that, in the face of dreadful, pervasive, overwhelming, demeaning and dehumanizing opposition, and without all that much reason to believe he’d succeed, Mandela did four things:
- He would not accept the status quo.
- He would not be quiet.
- He would maintain his own dignity.
- He would not quit.
He was released. He led his nation. Everything did not work out tidily. His story is not one a dream having come perfectly true. But in broad strokes, he and his colleagues changed the world and ended apartheid.
via Echoes of the Long Walk – TrueHoop Blog – ESPN.