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A paper which looks at the important role played by Nelson Mandela in the development of the modern South Africa, and the way in which his theories of civil rights and social justice can be applied to the political situation in other countries. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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that Nelson Mandela should be labelled as a "black leader" is perhaps a matter of political and cultural perspective. Certainly, his struggle against apartheid was in support of black people
in South Africa, and his contribution to the eventual downfall of the repressive regime was a major one. However, one could also assert that the moral and ethical principles on
which his stance was based could equally well be applied to any oppressed people, and it would therefore not be entirely accurate to restrict his contribution solely to the struggles
undergone by black people. The concepts of equal human rights for all can be applied across the board, and whilst it is certainly the case that black races have suffered
more from repression over the past few centuries than many non-black races, this does not in itself indicate that the only fights for civil rights which occur are in the
context of black populations subjugated by whites.
As Frist (2004) points out, the civil rights movement has as its aim equality for all people, not the superiority of one racial or ethnic group over another. This
is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instance, Martin Luther King strongly emphasised the damage which discrimination and
prejudice could do to both black and white communities, and the importance of establishing a fair and just society in which there was equality and mutual respect, and in which
no groups are excluded because of their ethnic or racial origins.
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