Taking A Stand or Winning Taking a stand and winning are both very difficult tasks that the majority of the people don’t do. I believe that taking a stand for something and fighting for it makes you the bigger and better person than the person that wins. If you stand up and fight for something you believe in, and lose, there is nothing you can do about it, but be happy that you stood up for something that you think is right. Taking a stand for something that is wrong or for something that you believe in is very brave. A lot of people that have different thoughts and beliefs won’t stand up for what they think is right, because they are scared that people will judge them and that people will just laugh at them. A person that comes to mind when you think about standing up for what you believe in is Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela fought segregation in South Africa when no one else would. “Mandela represents equality, fairness, democracy and freedom in an often unequal, unfair and undemocratic world”(https://www.one.org/us/2015/02/12/8-people-who-broke-the-law-to-change-the-world/ 10/30/17). Nelson started a revolution that would last for generations upon generations. People began standing up for what they believed in …show more content…
Martin Luther fought segregation in the deep south of the USA. He started a revolution in the south of African American people standing up for their rights. “Martin Luther King had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, as the face of the Civil-Rights movement in the 1950’s.(https://www.one.org/us/2015/02/12/8-people-who-broke-the-law-to-change-the-world/ 10/30/17). Martin was later shot for what he was standing up for, but in the end won. He began a movement that is still going on today in some parts of the south. His fight and standing up for what he believed in put him in every history book as a person to look up