‘’I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.” ~ Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela was a black man who fought for the rights and freedom of black people in South Africa. He wanted to make the society equal and encourage all the unequal people to fight for their rights. This was worth fighting for because black people were treated as inferior to the white population.
Equal rights are important to fight for because otherwise people think that they are more important than others. If this is so, people could be discriminated against and freedom is taken away. As Mandela grew up into a segregated society, he started thinking of why this is so and what could be done to stop it. Living in a system called the ‘’Apartheid’,’ which is Dutch for separate. Black people lived in poverty because they did not get enough paid and did not share the same opportunities only because they didn’t have the same skin colour as the white people.
A white person in South Africa has more rights than a black person and would think that this was right. Mandela thought the opposite and fought for justice. He did not want to fight, he did not want to be better, but he wanted to be equal. As Mandela encouraged the unequal to stand up, the government was against him. They did not think that what he did was right. So they placed him in jail. After being locked up for 27 years, he did not gave up for his struggle for freedom. This time he changed the minds of the government. He showed them what South Africa wanted. This was the beginning of the end of ‘’apartheid’’. He created the chance to stand up and fought verbally for the rights of black people. He persisted to make a change.
Mandela said that it would not be an easy walk to achieve an equal society, as becomes clear from his following words: "I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended." As Mandela said these words he did not think about himself but about the people of Africa. Mandela took the first steps to a utopia society starting with the equality of black and white.
Coming back to the initial quote of Mandela: ‘’I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man’’, which means that racialism is uncivilized, whether it comes from any human race. Nelson Mandela thought this was violating human rights and stood up for it. The government disregarded the black people and did not look out for them. He build the tolerance between white and black as it was never before. The satisfaction needs to come from both sides. He was the impetus of a equal society. Mandela fought for what he believed and made it happen.
Equal rights are important to fight for because otherwise people think that they are more important than others. If this is so, people could be discriminated against and freedom is taken away. As Mandela grew up into a segregated society, he started thinking of why this is so and what could be done to stop it. Living in a system called the ‘’Apartheid’,’ which is Dutch for separate. Black people lived in poverty because they did not get enough paid and did not share the same opportunities only because they didn’t have the same skin colour as the white people.
A white person in South Africa has more rights than a black person and would think that this was right. Mandela thought the opposite and fought for justice. He did not want to fight, he did not want to be better, but he wanted to be equal. As Mandela encouraged the unequal to stand up, the government was against him. They did not think that what he did was right. So they placed him in jail. After being locked up for 27 years, he did not gave up for his struggle for freedom. This time he changed the minds of the government. He showed them what South Africa wanted. This was the beginning of the end of ‘’apartheid’’. He created the chance to stand up and fought verbally for the rights of black people. He persisted to make a change.
Mandela said that it would not be an easy walk to achieve an equal society, as becomes clear from his following words: "I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended." As Mandela said these words he did not think about himself but about the people of Africa. Mandela took the first steps to a utopia society starting with the equality of black and white.
Coming back to the initial quote of Mandela: ‘’I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man’’, which means that racialism is uncivilized, whether it comes from any human race. Nelson Mandela thought this was violating human rights and stood up for it. The government disregarded the black people and did not look out for them. He build the tolerance between white and black as it was never before. The satisfaction needs to come from both sides. He was the impetus of a equal society. Mandela fought for what he believed and made it happen.
Good choice of person to write about as Nelson Madela is someone who most people would know. Your background information is good and detailed. I also like your use of quotes. What you may want to next time is be more detailed about what je actually did and how. Currently you only said what he achieved, not what he did to achieve and how he did it. You have also not been very detailed about what kind of priveledges the black people were excluded from.
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