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Compare And Contrast Long Walk To Freedom And Mahatma Gandhi

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“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” - Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela was a human rights activist for South Africa. “Live like you could die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was an activist for human rights in India. The two people I will be talking about are Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, who were both activists for human rights in their countries. Even though Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela both worked in different countries, they both fought for human rights. Even though Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi had books made about them and showed how much people looked up to them, Long Walk to Freedom showed how much Nelson Mandela …show more content…

But, when he struggled to defend human rights’, he realized something. That not even the people who take away a man’s freedom, are not free. When Mandela went to prison, his view on human rights’ changed. He started to realize that he wasn’t the only one not free, that everyone else around was not free either. In paragraph ten it says, “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. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.” “A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred,” this talks about everyone is not free. Not even the people who are taking away another man’s freedom. It’s a never ending cycle of oppressed and oppressors. But, in paragraph 7, it talks about have two obligations. “In life, every man has twin obligations—obligations to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children; and he has an obligation to his people, his community, his country. In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfill those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities… I did not in the beginning choose to place my people above my family, but in attempting to serve my people, I found that I was prevented from serving my obligations as a son, a brother, a father, and a husband.” Mandela struggled to be with his family when he fought for human rights. He lost touch with his family when he served the people of South

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Mahatma Gandhi was a civil rights leader. Gandhi is credited with freeing India from British rule. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869. He studied in London to become a lawyer and went to South Africa to practice law. While he was in South Africa he began to congregate with the Indian population and held silent strikes against social injustices (Biography.com).

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This essay compares and contrast the following two readings: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Junior and “Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela. This essay will prove why Martin Luther King’s method for achieving justice for all is the most compelling and why. Martin Luther King’s method is effective because it peacefully allows the issue to be known and ultimately leads to the possibility of negotiating. In addition, this method also invites people who normally would not get involved in civil rights issues to get involved. Nelson Mandela’s method is not effective because it makes the oppressed as guilty as the oppressors and makes people less open to negotiating.

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Kamehameha and Gandhi were both effective leaders because they both made a bold move, they both made the society better, and they both helped their own country. However, some differences were that they were born in a different level of class, Kamehameha fought physically when Gandhi didn’t, and lastly, the two leaders wanted different things. While Kamehameha wanted to rule, Gandhi wanted peace. Even though Kamehameha and Gandhi were effective leaders, they both had a different plan and strategy to fight. On the other hand, they were both amazing leaders.

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Douglass quickly remembers that “the ferocious beasts of the forest lie in wait for their prey.” He understands that so long as he is a black man in a white man’s country he will never truly be free. At any given moment a white man can capture him and return him to

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