What Is The Courage Of Nelson Mandela

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In the years 1918, one of the greatest successful leader was born in South Africa. He grew up in a royal family, which bestow him a prosperous quality of African sovereignty and legacy. Throughout his system education, Nelson Mandela acquired knowledge which inspired him to fight against apartheid, a racial segregation. This battle took the major time of his life and he was determinate to end up the racial determination in South Africa. A country where the black people were considered inferior and did not have no privileges. Nelson Mandela had a courage to challenge the apartheid through his education, his involvement in political life and his associative life. Nelson Mandela was born on July 1918 in Mvozo,

After knowing that he had an arranged marriage, he fled to Johannesburg and started working as a watchman going to the University of Witwatersrand where he studied law. In 1994 Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) to fight against the movement of racial discrimination in his country. In 1924 Mandela married Evelyn Ntoko Mase. In 1948 after the Afrikaner party won the election, Mandela became more involved with politics than before, because of the racial segregation that was not allowing nonwhite from exercising their right. Mandela used the nonviolent method to gain the full citizenship. On December 5, 1956, Mandela was arrested along with some of his members, in 1960s Mandela said to an interview “There are thousands of people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence — against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. And I think the time has come for us to consider, in the light of our experiences at this day at home, whether the methods

After almost 40 of white oppression and suffering he fought and freed the republic of South Africa against the apartheid, a system that was set to oppressed and kill the indigenous. He impacted the world with his ideology of the nonviolence and reuniting his country with what was the most segregated country in the world. And also with the length of time he spent in jail. Before becoming the black president of South Africa. Martin Luther King once said “You can kill a man, but not an idea, not a revolution”. He believed in freedom, equality, and