Biography vs. hagiography

"One issue that deeply worried me in prison was the false image that I unwittingly projected to the outside world: of being regarded as a saint. I never was one, even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying" #NelsonMandela #LivingTheLegacy pic.twitter.com/TZvzOeGftE

— NelsonMandela (@NelsonMandela) January 31, 2018

Every good biography finds contradictions in the person. The greatest contradictions are found in the greatest people. As Solzhenitsyn wrote, the line between good and evil runs "through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years...." https://t.co/MfaUIWBCka

— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) January 27, 2018