you have to forgive to be free: Nelson Mandela

I was watching this movie titled "catch a fire" set in the apartheid pariod of South Africa. Its about how a white police officer wrongly suspects an innocent black man (Patric) to be a terrorist and ruins his life. He tortures not only him but also his wife. The trauma inflicted compells him to become one after his release.
After five years apartheid ends. Patric loses everything after becoming a terrorist including his wife.

Three years after apartheid, destiny makes him meet that police officer again who is now retired. Its not difficult to imagine why he is dying to take revenge.

But something changed and he remembered what Nelson Mandela had said
"you have to forgive to be actually free"
Revenge would not have freed him of his mental agony, but forgiveness can.

Nothing could have made the black's coexist with the white' s after apartheid, but for this clear understanding.

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