“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Mandela wrote this in Long Walk to Freedom — his autobiography, completed after 27 years in prison, most of it on Robben Island in a cell measuring eight feet by seven. He was not writing abstractly about courage.
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