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WHAT IS FREEDOM...? - Based on Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom.
Importance Of Freedom There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere. - Nelson Mandela
• Freedom is important to the collective state of being. When the group or social identity of individuals are free, then, and only then, will they, themselves as individuals, be free. • If we lack freedom, we cannot truly become mature human beings. When we are forced to do things or not to do things, we do not have that many choices. We are not allowed to make our own decisions. Because of this, we are not really able to have fully developed morals or consciences.
a person becomes brave, not because he does not feel afraid, but because he knows how to conquer his fears.
Freedom of thought, to consider ideas and to adopt the views that seem best to us; freedom of speech and press, to express our ideas, whatever they are and regardless of whether others approve or not; freedom of action, including freedom of religion, to do as we choose so long as we don’t violate others’ equal rights; freedom of owning property, material possessions, so long as we have acquired them legitimately, i.e. not through theft via force or fraud. Freedom is important because it leads to enhanced expressions of creativity and original thought, increased productivity, and an overall high quality of life.
Nelson Mandela's Fight For Freedom
• Nelson Mandela fought against apartheid, a system of white supremacy in South Africa. Under apartheid, everyone was put into one of four racial categories: “white/European,” “black,” “coloured,” or “Indian/Asian.” Non‐white South Africans were second‐class citizens with little or no political power. Restrictive laws governed every aspect of people’s lives, dictating where they could live, work and travel and restricting their access to education, health care and other social services.
• Mandela rose up against apartheid and called upon all South Africans to join him. Although he was arrested and imprisoned for 27 years for fighting for freedom, Mandela refused to give up the struggle or give in to hate. Mandela was fighting against apartheid, but he was also fighting for something: a better world, in which the freedom, justice and dignity of all were respected. Even before his release in 1990, Mandela began negotiating with the government to end apartheid. Through those negotiations, he helped prevented a bloody civil war. Mandela went on to become the country’s first democratically elected president.
• The African leader began his political career in Johannesburg, the city that granted him the opportunity to become an attorney and join the ANC. This is how far he had come from Umtata, the town in the east of the country where he was born in 1918. Long before he launched his crusade against apartheid. • It was Mandela, however, who spoke first when the prosecution ended its case on February 29, 1964. He told justice Quartus de Wet that their struggle was to get rights for all South Africans and to end the unjust system of apartheid which had 'robbed the African people of their dignity.' • While Mandela was enduring his long years of imprisonment, his popularity grew in the rest of the world and he became a visible symbol of the fight against racial segregation. This was so true that, after being freed, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, along with F. W. de Klerk, the man who preceded him as President of South African and who negotiated the definitive end of apartheid. • Mandela was a leader who worked with the enemy to end racial separation and who fought tirelessly against discrimination and for the freedom he eventually achieved for his country.
Thoughts of Nelson Mandela on Freedom • According to Mandela, freedom was indivisible for all. But the people of his colour and race were bound in chains of oppression and tyranny. He knew that the oppressor must be liberated just like the oppressed because a person who snatches another’s freedom is also a prisoner of similar oppression. Thus, the oppressor is not free too and feels shackled in the chains of oppression himself. • All these events reminded Mandela how the blackskinned people were exploited by the white people earlier. He deeply felt the pain of his race and said that this type of suppression and racial domination of the white-skinned people against the dark-skinned people on their own land gave rise to one of the harshest and most inhumane societies the world had ever seen or known.
• At first, as a student, He wanted freedom only for himself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what he pleased and go where he wanted. Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, he yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving his potential, of earning my keep, of marrying and having a family — the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life. But then he slowly saw that not only was he not free, but his brothers and sisters were also not free. he saw that it was not just his freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked darkskinned. That is when he joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for his own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of african people. Nelson Mandela wanted the freedom that apartheid people have also the same rights as the white people.
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