【正文】 even their horses were qui t. There were no shouts or peopl e doi ng crazy thi ngs. In al those terri bl e hours I saw not one wom an who cri ed, not one m an who was exci ted. Before the fi res, through the ni ght, thousands and thousands of peopl e who had l ost thei r hom es l eft for safety. Som e were covered i n bl ankets. Som eti mes whol e fami li es put everythi ng they owned and coul d save into wagons. They helped one another cli m b the high hi l s around the city. Never i n al SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so kind as on that terribl e night. Unit 5 Elias’ story My name i s El ias. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfri ca. The ti m e when I fi rst m et N el son Mandel a was a very di ffi cul t period of m y l ife. I was twel ve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandela was the bl ack l awyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to poor bl ack peopl e on thei r l egal problem s. H e was generous wi th hi s tim e, for whi ch I was grateful. I needed hi s hel p because I had very li ttl e education. I be gan school at si x. The school where I studi ed for onl y two years was three kil om eters away. I had to l eave because m y fam il y coul d not conti nue to pay the schol fees and the bus fare. I coul d not read or write wel l. After trying hard, I got a job i n a gol d m ine. H owever, thi s was a time when one had to got to have a passbook to li ve i n Johannesburg. Sadl y I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worri ed about whether I woul d be e out of work. The day when N elson Mandel a hel ped me was one of m y happi est. H e tol d m e how to get the correct papers so I coul d stay i n Johannesburg. I becam e m ore hopeful about m y future. I never fot how kind Mandel a was. When he ani zed the AN C Youth League, I joi ned it as soon as I coul d. H e sai d: “ The l ast thirty years have seen the greatest num ber of laws stopping our ri ghts and progress,until today we have reached a stage where we have alm ost no ri ghts at al . ” It was the truth. Bl ack peopl e coul d not vote or choose thei r l eaders. They coul d not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town i n whi ch they had to li ve were deci ded by whi te peopl e. The pl aces outsi de the towns where they were sent to li ve were the poorest parts of South Afri ca. N o one coul d grow food there,. In fact as N el son Mandel a sai d: “… We were put i nto a posi ti on i n whi ch we had either to accept we were l ess im portant, or fi ght the governm ent. We chose to attack the l aws. We fi rst broke the l aw i n a way whi ch was peaceful 。 17 原料基地技術(shù)改造 17 17 14 第二章 市場(chǎng)預(yù)測(cè) 10 項(xiàng)目運(yùn)作模式 even their horses were qui t. There were no shouts or peopl e doi ng crazy thi ngs. In al those terri bl e hours I saw not one wom an who cri ed, not one m an who was exci ted. Before the fi res, through the ni ght, thousands and thousands of peopl e who had l ost thei r hom es l eft for safety. Som e were covered i n bl ankets. Som eti mes whol e fami li es put everythi ng they owned and coul d save into wagons. They helped one another cli m b the high hi l s around the city. Never i n al SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so kind as on that terribl e night. Unit 5 Elias’ story My name i s El ias. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfri ca. The ti m e when I fi rst m et N el son Mandel a was a very di ffi cul t period of m y l ife. I was twel ve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandela was the bl ack l awyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to poor bl ack peopl e on thei r l egal problem s. H e was generous wi th hi s tim e, for whi ch I was grateful. I needed hi s hel p because I had very li ttl e education. I be gan school at si x. The school where I studi ed for onl y two years was three kil om eters away. I had to l eave because m y fam il y coul d not conti nue to pay the schol fees and the bus fare. I coul d not read or write wel l. After trying hard, I got a job i n a gol d m ine. H owever, thi s was a time when one had to got to have a passbook to li ve i n Johannesburg. Sadl y I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worri ed about whether I woul d be e out of work. The day when N elson Mandel a hel ped me was one of m y happi est. H e tol d m e how to get the correct papers so I coul d stay i n Johannesburg. I becam e m ore hopeful about m y future. I never fot how kind Mandel a was. When he ani zed the AN C Youth League, I joi ned it as soon as I coul d. H e sai d: “ The l ast thirty years have seen the greatest num ber of laws stopping our ri ghts and progress,until today we have reached a stage where we have alm ost no ri ghts at al . ” It was the truth. Bl ack peopl e coul d not vote or choose thei r l eaders. They coul d not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town i n whi ch they had to li ve were deci ded by whi te peopl e. The pl aces outsi de the towns where they were sent to li ve were the poorest parts of South Afri ca. N o one coul d grow food there,. In fact as N el son Mandel a sai d: “… We were put i nto a posi ti on i n whi ch we had either to accept we were l ess im portant, or fi ght the governm ent. We chose to attack the l aws. We fi rst broke the l aw i n a way whi ch was peaceful 。 when this was not al owed… onl y then did we deci de to answer vi ol ence wi th vi ol ence. ” As a m atter of fact, I do not li ke vi ol ence… but i n 1963 I hel ped him bl ow up som e government buil di ngs. It was very dangerous because i f I was caught I coul d be put i n pri son. But I was very happy to help because I knew it woul d hel p us achi eve our dream of m aki ng black and whi te peopl e equal. The rest of Eli as’ story You cannot im agi ne how the nam e of Robben Isl and m ade us afrai d. It was a pri son from w