Only a small amount of people know that my real name is Rolihlahla. Mostly, I am recognised as Nelson Mandela. When I started school at age 7, my teacher changed my name to Nelson. We weren't allowed to keep our African names because of the British bias of our education. I didn't just lose a name, I lost a part of myself, of my identity. The whites either couldn't or refused to pronounce our real names. …showed first 75 words of 1002 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1002 total…Africa. Every single day, situations arose, where I had the power to put white men through what they put me through. I never did. Not once. I would just be using discrimination and prejudice all over again. Isn't that what I had been fighting against my entire life? I am now 87 years old, and still fighting Prejudice and Discrimination, against blacks and whites, and I will continue to do so until the day I die.