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> Mandela was respected for what he did after being released from prison, rather than what he did before going to prison. He can be respected for both. Many o
by Crito 13y ago
> Mandela was respected for what he did after being released from prison, rather than what he did before going to prison.
He can be respected for both. Many of us do respect him for the totality of what he was, not just what he was later in life.
- chrisdevereux 13y agoOh, that's totally true. I didn't mean to suggest that he isn't respected for his earlier actions (which, reading it back, I kinda did). But I don't think he'd be thought about the same way if it wasn't for the second act. A lot of people are unfairly imprisoned by despotic governments. Not many become unifying figures in the way that Mandela did. So I don't think the comparison to Snowden is a good one.