Integrated Skills Practicing(P93) Viewing & Listening Oprah: How did you get the graceless guard to treat you with respect? You were in prison, and you said, “I would 1 the name Mandela or Mr. Mandela.” Mandela: You must 2 the battle for dignity on the very first day you go to jail...... And that was what we did. We 3 and insisted in being respected, even though we were prisoners. Oprah: How is there no bitterness? Mandela: Well, I hated oppression ( 压迫 ). And when I think about the past, the type of things they did, I feel angry. 4 Said, "The white minority ( 少数派 ) is an enemy. We must never talk to them. “ But 5 said, "If you don’t talk to these men, your country will go up in flames( 毁于一旦 ).And, 6 for many years to come, this country will be engulfed ( 淹没 ) in rivers of blood.” So we had to reconcile that conflict, and our talking to the enemy was the result of the domination( 控制,支配 ) of the brain over emotion. Oprah: This has not happened before, 7 , that as he was leaving the building, every one of the Harpo staff, of the 300 people in the building, lined the hallway (走廊 ) 8 . Now we call that the Nelson Mandela Hallway here at Harpo.