Nelson Mandela

One of the main ideas of Nelson Mandela was the ending of apartheid, which was a South African racial segregation that kept black residents from being able to have the same rights as white residents (Sampson, 2011). This was very similar to the slavery that was seen in the United States in the past, and Mandela wanted to see it stopped. His major idea was that people should be equal, and that the color of a person's skin should not have an effect on the rights that person had. This has, of course, been said by others in the past, and is not an idea that is unique to Mandela. However, Mandela took the idea very far in an effort to make sure apartheid ended. He was successful in making that happen. This is not the same thing as stopping racism, which can be in the hearts and...
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