Mandela 's South Africa: The Fight for Equality
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one 's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”, Nelson Mandela exemplified this mindset. He possessed several powerful qualities among these where his intelligence, persistence, and a strong sense of justice. These qualities were the foundation of what would become the final abolishment of apartheid. During the 1960-200’s Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela reinforced positive leadership through persistence, intelligence, and a strong sense of justice to ignite the beginning of the dismantling of apartheid.
His strong sense of righteousness allowed him to greatly succeed and gather quite the following for example when Nelson Mandela was a young man he went to college and during that process he saw all the great discrimination towards black South Africans so he decided from a young to use his charisma to bring up protest to speak up against all the unfair treatment. That alone is only one example of Nelson Mandela 's use of his social status to help make a difference.
Mandela spent one-third of his life as a state criminal in prison because of the political views, according to which the black population of South Africa should have the same rights as the white population.
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Mandela 's recognition started at the national level, he has been elected as president of South Africa, he also won the Nobel Peace Prize and ended on the global one - granting the status of World conciliator. Nelson Mandela 's philosophy can be expressed through the following words:” if you talk to a man in a language he understands, you make him think. If you say to a person in his own language, you touch his heart”. Nelson Mandela left a great political legacy and the country divided into supporters and opponents of his