how Mandela took inspiration from contraband Shakespeare

Mandela read and took inspiration from a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare that was smuggled into the prison where he was incarcerated for so many years. In those days he was denied newspapers and only rarely had letters. The prisoners circulated the book and signed passages they related to in their own struggle.

Fuck, yeah, literature!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/06/world/the-smuggled-shakespeare-book/index.html?iid=article_sidebar