“It is no secret that the most aggressive, the most rigid policy on protection of own interests, as understood by the U.S. administration, is pursued exactly by the U.S., year in, year out. We have barely any troops abroad, whereas the U.S. has troops everywhere, it has military bases all over the world, and everywhere they participate in deciding the fates of other nations that are thousands of miles away from their own borders.”  – Vladimir Putin

This got me thinking.....

A man washing a 'Free Mandela' slogan off the side of King's Collage Chapel, Cambridge, 1964.

Photo by Peter Dunne

“In a way I had never quite comprehended before, I realized the role I could play in court and the possibilities before me as a defendant. I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues. I realized then and there that I could carry on the fight even in the fortress of the enemy.”