Referring to the chapter feature, “The Global Record: Nelson Mandela and the Universality of Human Values,” answer the following question: everyone has heard of the many political triumphs of Mandela, but what does anyone know of the personal man who spent 27 years in prison because of his fight against apartheid? By studying his speech, what does a person learn about the personal man that is
Mandela?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The student has many choices here and may choose what he or she feels is important from Mandela’s actual words. Examples:
He spoke of never losing courage and compared his courage to “his people’s courage.”
He believed he was “born to be free” and transferred this to” freeing his people.”
Once out of prison: “He had a mission” to liberate the oppressors as well as the oppressed.
Felt he had climbed a “great hill.”
Had a “long walk ahead yet.”
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