My lovely wife,
too long have we two been apart from each other and every day makes it worse. The jail guards treat us worse every single day, I can hear people screaming and crying in the neighbor cells. But let us not talk about my problems. How are you? How are the kids? Is the government still bothering you? Are you safe and have enough to eat?
My organization is still fighting against the white majority. I got the information via one of my informants. Even though I trust my people, I can’t stand sitting in this hole, day for day, week for week, year for year and not being able to help my people. So many blacks are experience injustice in this country and we need a leader who is willing to fight for those! I want to be this leader! I want to fight and help my people! But I am useless. My actions were effect less. I choose to fight with violence. It was the wrong choice. Not only that I ended up in prison because of my actions, but I played with the life of so many people and was not a good role model for the world. While spending my days in prison I have thought about my actions many and many times. It was not right what I did. It was not fair. Few years ago I thought about violence as the only way to achieve justice. I was wrong. I wanted so badly that my actions got seen, that Apartheid would be history forever. But it was not right to chose violence to set my statements. I was fighting against the people who are unjust to us, who are hurting our men, women, children, but using violence against them made me worse than them. There must be other ways to achieve justice and I will find these ways and set an end to Apartheid! I’m even mentoring my fellow prisoners to be strong and fight for their rights, but without violence. There must be a way of nonviolence. As soon as I’m gonna be out of prison I will continue fighting for this country, because I believe in a brighter future, I believe in equality and a fair society!
I was also able to smuggle some political statements out of jail. I’m so thankful that I still have friends I can trust and who are supporting me. I really hope this letter can get to you without any problems. I also asked our old friend to take care of you and the kids. I suppose he will visit you soon and talk with you about your safety and further steps. I hope the world will realize that I need to get released from jail. The world needs to change and I want to help!
Again, I hope you are in health and safety. Take care of yourself and the kids and don’t worry about me! We will soon see us again!
Sincerely,
your loving husband,
Nelson
too long have we two been apart from each other and every day makes it worse. The jail guards treat us worse every single day, I can hear people screaming and crying in the neighbor cells. But let us not talk about my problems. How are you? How are the kids? Is the government still bothering you? Are you safe and have enough to eat?
My organization is still fighting against the white majority. I got the information via one of my informants. Even though I trust my people, I can’t stand sitting in this hole, day for day, week for week, year for year and not being able to help my people. So many blacks are experience injustice in this country and we need a leader who is willing to fight for those! I want to be this leader! I want to fight and help my people! But I am useless. My actions were effect less. I choose to fight with violence. It was the wrong choice. Not only that I ended up in prison because of my actions, but I played with the life of so many people and was not a good role model for the world. While spending my days in prison I have thought about my actions many and many times. It was not right what I did. It was not fair. Few years ago I thought about violence as the only way to achieve justice. I was wrong. I wanted so badly that my actions got seen, that Apartheid would be history forever. But it was not right to chose violence to set my statements. I was fighting against the people who are unjust to us, who are hurting our men, women, children, but using violence against them made me worse than them. There must be other ways to achieve justice and I will find these ways and set an end to Apartheid! I’m even mentoring my fellow prisoners to be strong and fight for their rights, but without violence. There must be a way of nonviolence. As soon as I’m gonna be out of prison I will continue fighting for this country, because I believe in a brighter future, I believe in equality and a fair society!
I was also able to smuggle some political statements out of jail. I’m so thankful that I still have friends I can trust and who are supporting me. I really hope this letter can get to you without any problems. I also asked our old friend to take care of you and the kids. I suppose he will visit you soon and talk with you about your safety and further steps. I hope the world will realize that I need to get released from jail. The world needs to change and I want to help!
Again, I hope you are in health and safety. Take care of yourself and the kids and don’t worry about me! We will soon see us again!
Sincerely,
your loving husband,
Nelson