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In the meantime, the ANC was announced illegal all over South Africa and after that Mandela began fighting for the launching of a militant organ inside the ANC. In the mid of 1961, the governing body of ANC recognized Mandela‘s proposition on the practice of fierce strategies and admitted that those associates who wanted to engage "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Afterward Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment and spent long 27 years in prison. Mandela's fame flourished firmly when he was imprisoned for a long time. He was broadly approved as the most remarkable black commander in South Africa and turned into a powerful motif of opposition as the anti-apartheid operation assembled courage and vitality. He steadily denied compromising his political stand to get emancipation. He was determined a B