Human Rights are something that need to be represented. It doesn’t matter if it is Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, or freedom from apartheid, everyone deserves to be heard. Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, and Mother Jones all stood up to defend the defenseless, although they used different methods. Nelson Mandela stood up to defend the defenseless for civil rights in South Africa, because he personally had experienced what it was like to suffer from racial discrimination. For example the author states, “But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did” (Mandela). While Nelson Mandela was …show more content…
Mandela realized that he was never truly free from the oppression that he felt. Also, his mission was, “to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both” (Mandela). His motivation was to end the oppression and pain brought on by apartheid. Mandela wanted to permanently erase apartheid from the present, because he knew apartheid and oppression would always be in South Africa’s past. The author wrote, “It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black” (Mandela). Mandela wanted everyone to be equal, which meant that he would stand up for anyone being oppressed. Nelson Mandela believed defending human rights is important, because everyone should have their own rights and privileges despite their race, religion, or gender.
Mother Jones defended human rights by marching from Philadelphia to New York to show that children should not be working in factories with dangerous machines. Mother Jones knew
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They all firmly believed that all humans deserve to be equal and free from challenges like terrorism, oppression, and child labor. Finally, they all want people to treat each other with dignity and respect.
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Imagine working in the hot sun or being apart of child labor. You would be exhausted or want to escape. You would want better food because they provide you with so little. You would have been wishing for a better life. No one wants to work at a young age. They just want someone who cares for them. However, two people fought to stop these unfair laws. The biography “Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights” by Judith Pinkerton Josephson is about an elder who is named Mary Harris Jones. She protested against child labor because these children were injured and she thought it was unfair. The Cesar Chavez Foundation (CCF) wrote the biography “About Cesar” to tell us how he fought for the farmers rights to give them fair laws. Both of these people fought for justice because they wanted better rights for workers. However, Cesar Chavez made a larger impact on the world we live in.
She was now getting into the field of labor agitation and would change America forever. In 1903, she organized a march in which children, mutilated from their jobs, marched the streets to the home of Theodore Roosevelt in order to draw attention to the grueling and wicked child labor laws. “Federal laws against child labor would not come for decades, but for two months that summer, Mother Jones, with her street theater and speeches, made the issue front-page news.” This shows how after several attempts from previous progressive reformers, Jones was the only one whose protests were powerful and effective enough to open people’s eyes to the issues. A reason that Jones had become so effective was that of her exploration and observations. She frequently visited factories to observe the cruel working conditions in which people worked in and interviewed workers to get a feel for them and understand the brutality of the work. She stated herself that because of rough conditions, “The brain is so crushed as to be incapable of thinking, and one who mingles with these people soon discovers that their minds like their bodies are wrecked. Loss of sleep and loss of rest gives rise to abnormal appetites, indigestion, shrinkage of statue, bent backs and aching hearts.” By examining workplaces, she was able to gather empathy and sympathy for the workers who were suffering.
Individuals stand up to justice to change inequitable laws and issues. According to Susan B. Anthony’s speech “On Women’s Right to Vote”, it states “women are citizens, and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old laws, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.” Anthony wanted to change an unfair issue. Women could not vote nor was given any freedom of speech. She took a stand against justice and eventually led to the changings of this outrageous law, and providing an example of the importance of taking a stand.
She got them rights for safer working conditions with safer machines. Before the factory workers had better rights and safer working conditions, many factory workers would have some of their limbs cut off by the machines. “Mother” Jones started non-violent marches to try and get the factory workers better rights. She didn’t succeed when she was alive, but the laws were passed a few years after she died. She raised the awareness of what happened in the factory, and that is one of the reasons those laws were passed.
Nelson Mandela has just gotten out of prison and is speaking to a rally of ANC supporters in Cape Town urging a continued struggle for racial equality and a government not dominated by any one race, black or white. Mandela is using the built up passion and anger from years of oppression to instill a resolve in the ANC members and others who are fighting for equality in South Africa. Calm Logic Despite his time in prison, Nelson Mandela was very calm and forgiving about his time there. He opens his speech with “I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.”
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She was a voice for women all over the world. She wanted the world to stop treating women like their rights are different then human rights. “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” A law will not fix this issue, it will not change how women are treated, we, as a nation has to change our views. Women make up half of the population; we rely on them for many tasks. They are mothers, sister, wives, workers, and politicians. The only way this nation can reach its full potential is when everyone is treated with respect and
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Nelson Mandela in his book, Long Walk to Freedom argues through the first five parts that a black individual must deal, coop, and grow through a society that is hindering their lives with apartheid and suppression of their rightful land. Rolihlanla Mphakanyiswa or clan name, Madiba was born on July 18, 1918 in a simple village of Mvezo, which was not accustomed to the happenings of South Africa as a whole. His father was a respected man who led a good life, but lost it because of a dispute with the magistrate. While, his mother was a hard-working woman, full of daily choirs. His childhood was full of playing games with fellow children and having fun.
...to catch the killer. He gave hope to millions of Africans and inspired millions of others elsewhere, but if his successors in government have been less admirable, and if his example has not been followed in countries like Zimbabwe, that should not be surprising. Hard though much of his life had been, Mr Mandela lived long enough to see his work through. He alone could sway opinion for or against the acceptance of agreements, which was crucial in the case of the constitution, greeted by many ANC supporters.
2.2. Supporting fact two: Even though Mandela fought against the white minority ruling over the black community, he did not consider white people to be inferior, as he says in this declaration: “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
Invictus and Mandela: “Is it Hollywood or is it History” Have you ever even thought about standing up for a race that isnt of your own? Would you have the courage? Even with other people putting you down and trying to hurt your feeling, could you still stand tall? Well in the movie Invictus a very brave man stood up for what he believed was right. I have read the bio of Nelson Mandela and also watched the movie Invictus, even though they are both basically about the same man I believe there is a few many different differences.
“The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight” (“Nelson Mandela”). Nelson Mandela took the chance and fought for his rights and freedom. Mandela has gone through many troubles in his life since the day he was born. A young man that had no shoes till he approached the age of sixteen, and then transformed into a great political leader of his country. Mandela’s life is an impressing story to be told!
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is judged to be one of the greatest political leaders of modern times. Among his many accomplishments are the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa and establishing democracy there and becoming the president of South Africa in 1994 following their first multiracial elections. Nelson was born as the foster son of a Thembu chief in Umtata (now the province of Eastern Cape) and raised in a traditional tribal culture within the grips of apartheid, a powerful system of black oppression that existed in South Africa. After years as a poor student and law clerk in Johannesburg, he assumed an important role in the African National Congress (ANC), a civil rights group. He also helped form the ANC Youth League in the 1950's. He was accused of treason in 1956 but was acquitted in 1961. From 1960-1962 Mandela led the NAC's para military wing known as Umkhonto we Sizwe which translate to "Spear of the Nation." He was arrested in August of 1962, sentenced to five years in prison and while incarcerated was again convicted of sabotage and treason and was sentenced to life imprisonment in june, 1964 at the famous Rivonia Trial. During his twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of resistance to the white-dominated country of South Africa throughout the world. After complex negotiation, Mandela was finally released from prison by President F.W. deKlerk in February, 1990, after lifting the long ban on the ANC. Mandela's release from prison marked the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa when he once again became the head of the ANC. He began the process to from a new constitution in South Africa which would allow political power to the black majority. Finally in 1991 the South African government repealed the laws that had upheld apartheid.
In an excerpt from his memoir, Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela explains his shifting understanding of freedom based on different stages in his life. His perceptions of freedom evolved from wanting freedom for just himself to fighting for freedom for others. He concludes that denying freedom to others robs the oppressors of their own freedoms. As a child, Mandela felt as if he was always free no matter what. Mandela’s view of freedom was that he was already as free as he could possibly be. He was born free and just had to obey his father and followed the rules of their tribe. He states, “I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free—free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut, free to