profrhodes comments on What in your study of history have you found especially moving or touching?:
'I still don't really understand it. The insane bravey of it, this man lying there in the hot dark night as his life ebbed away, taunting his own assassins rather than suing for survival. And yet, when against all the odds, he does survive, he hauls himself back and sits with them in council chambers....People like Chenjerai are the real asine mabvi - the men without knees. Not only were his legs covered in plaster casts for months, but he has refused to kneel, refused to prostrate himself before the dictatorship, whatever the consequences.'
It just gets to me that an ordinary man, beaten to within an inch of his life, staring death in the face, not only gets back up and survives, but then goes out and faces his attackers in their own arena. He doesn't stoop to their level - he just does what is right. Truly admirable. And he is not special, he is not a famous leader or military hero; he is just an ordinary man, and so he speaks for thousands of others all across the world who have been similarly as brave in their own pursuit of 'right'.
(see Peter Godwin, The Fear (London, 2010), pp.342-345.)