Former president John F. Kennedy once said, “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” That means that if we question one person’s rights, we’re questioning everyone’s rights. Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were both great fighters for human rights. Both men fought for the people in their country that were being oppressed. In The Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela's autobiography, we see the differences these two leaders made, not only in the lives of their people, but in the lives of everyone who has been oppressed. The text about Nelson Mandela is more persuasive than the text about Mahatma Gandhi. The Mandela text talks about the hardship he went through and and how he overcame them and still accomplished his goals. …show more content…
In paragraph 3, it says, “All we know is that there was a glory and that it is no more; all we know is that for the moment there is darkness, not so dark certainly, because when we look into our hearts we still find the living flame which he lighted there.” This metaphor tells us that Gandhi showed us how important human rights is and that we still know that even after he’s not there to remind us anymore. Also in paragraph 4, it says, “He was perhaps the greatest symbol of the India of the past, and may I say, of the India of the future, that we could have had.” Gandhi really set an example for the rest of India, and eventually the world to
In the 20th century, colonized countries were calling for independence from the European powers that colonized them. Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were two of the most influential people who participated in that. Mandela worked to liberate South Africa from the clutch of apartheid and Gandhi worked to liberate India from Britain. Over the years, they have been compared on their methods and goals. Mandela and Gandhi were very different when looking at their goals for their countries, their methods and their results.
Cesar Chavez and Mahatma Gandhi both gave rights to people with very little rights. Cesar Chavez gave more rights to migrant farm workers and Mahatma Gandhi helped uninslave India from Britain. Both where historic defenders of human rights. It is essential to defend human rights because everyone is equal no matter what race or culture and no matter if you are rich or poor. People should all be given the same opportunities to be able to do anything they want to accomplish.
Gandhi, King and Chavez all shared one similar goal. That goal was to bring society back from a culture of violence and hate, to a culture of peace and harmony. The method employed in their human rights struggles to achieve social justice was through the supreme importance of non-violent civil resistance/non-violence. A way civil resisters show their civil disobedience is by “noiselessly going to prison” to “ensure a calm atmosphere“ that will then “justify mass disobedience as civil, which means gentle, truthful, humble, knowing, loving, never criminal and hateful,“ (Gandhi, 358). Gandhi, King, and Chavez were all devoutly religious, but their tactics differed in the ways they approached non-violence. Gandhi approached non-violence ideological
Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were both extremely eminent figures of the twentieth century. They correspond to Transcendentalism, the idea that you should not conform to society’s laws and expectations, which essential in Gandhi and MLK’s philosophies. It is to do what you feel like doing, and not follow along or be influenced by the crowd, to follow your intuition. MLK and Gandhi both held non-violent resistances. MLK focused on promoting equality and anti-racism, and Gandhi wanted to give India independence from British rule, as well as fight the racism towards Indians in South Africa. Both Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi’s movements and beliefs were influenced by Henry David Thoreau, and they hold a strong connection to transcendentalism.
A paper explaining how the acts of Gandhi and Malcolm X have either made racism worse or has affected how people see it since the peek days of those two. There is enough evidence to support my conclusion and facts to back that up, it is very interesting information on how people have grown and how society has strangely barely changed from the early 1900’s. I want you to think about how America is today and how we are still racist after all these centuries. How after everything Malcolm X, Gandhi and MLK did for this country, this is what Americans still think of all the ethnic groups. In some cases I do believe that there has been a change in how Americans view racism, but it
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “An eye for an eye ends up leaving the whole world blind” (Mahatma Gandhi Biography). He was the primary leader of India’s independence movement against Britain and also the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience that influenced the world (Mahatma Gandhi Biography). Another one of the world’s most significant leaders is Osama bin Laden, the leader of the well-known terrorist group al-Qaeda, as well as the mastermind behind the attack on the United States of America on September 11, 2001. While both Gandhi and bin Laden are strong influential leaders in history, the pacifist and the extremist had very opposing ideas when practicing their beliefs and attempting to make differences in lives. Gandhi preached peace, love, and harmony: the things he believed would make our world whole.
Bekemeier and Butterfield’s article “Unreconciled Inconsistencies: A Critical Review of the Concept of Social Justice in 3 National Nursing Documents,’ highlighted multiple literary discrepancies on the subject of social justice in nursing. These fundamental nursing documents are: Nursing's Social Policy Statement, Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, and the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. I find myself agreeing with the viewpoints of Bekemeier and Butterfield. They bring to light many entries where nursing care is focused more in response to an injury or disease process, rather than providing nursing on a larger scale with a preventative connotation. The verbiage in many areas of
Thesis: Actions, beliefs, and patience are characteristics that are comparable in both the lives of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter” Martin Luther King Jr. It is of the utmost importance that people stand up for what you believe is true to cause the change they want to see. Our country was based from the beginning on that belief. Now, everyone has forgotten about the significance of the 1st amendment. We can do it violently such as the birth of America or peacefully like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh are the leaders of national independent movements from late 19th to early 20th century. Both of them defeated the colonial rulers and won national independence. This paper will talk about the influences of ideas and circumstances, the goals that they wanted to get and the historical significance of their behaviors.
We all live in a civil society in a country where we have equal rights and everyone gets the same kind treatment,sounds great right, and it is hard to imagine having all those privileges taken away. But the world wasn't all cheery and great less than 100 years ago the people of India and South Africa were discriminated and unjustly treated by people who were not even native to their region but another one more northern. It sounds dreadful because it was dreadful, but in hardships there are always motivating people like Mahatma Gandhi who liberated India from British rule by motivating a generation and many to come, to stand up for injustices in their life or the life of others.Furthermore, it is people like Nelson Mandela, who worked hard and got jailed for his belief of equal rights for all people no matter the color of their skin.Even if they both are inspirational and had to sacrifice greatly for their respective nation. One person will always come on top of the rest and that position was intended for Mahatma Gandhi.Therefore, you can infer this literary analysis will confirm the thesis that Mahatma Gandhi was the greater civil right activist. For the author for Eulogy For Mahatma Gandhi clearly states, “that man with divine fire, changed us also--and such as we are, we have been molded by him during these years; and out of that divine fire many of us also took a small spark…”, This doesn't make him just a civil rights activist but an inspiration to many people.
In Mahatma Gandhi’s speech “On Nonviolent Resistance”, he spoke out against the South African government and urged his fellow people to join him in his peaceful protesting. Gandhi was a prominent figure in India’s fight for independence from South African rule. Gandhi was a firm believer in peace and though he was imprisoned many times, he encouraged his followers to remain nonviolent despite violent actions from those in power. The speech was given to Gandhi’s supporters to urge them to stay firm in their beliefs. Gandhi used comparisons and examples to show logic in his speech, he also used the beliefs of his fellows Indians to appeal to his followers' ethics and prove his credibility, he finally used paradoxes to add to the emotional element in his speech.
The famous Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X left behind legacies that still influence the world today. One of the major factors that impacted these two historical figures was religion. The characteristics of Hinduism definitely had an effect on Gandhi’s peaceful and nonviolent views, just like the Islamic religion guided Malcolm X’s beliefs of by any means necessary. Their religious affiliations were not only deciding factors in their lives, but also played a key part in their deaths
When a great orator, as Gandhi was, has the ability to connect emotionally with an audience, they can influence almost any audience. Gandhi uses pathos in an incredible way throughout his speech. He knows that the people of India are struggling greatly under the rule of the British. He knows that his audience is full of hatred for the British. He addresses, and deals with these emotions very well. “I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred” (2). With this statement, Gandhi explains to the people that hatred is not the way to gain independence. The
Throughout history, many political leaders have transcendental ideas and beliefs, such as Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela, but there are many that do not conform to transcendental ideas, such as Alexander Hamilton and Joseph Stalin. It can also be noted that those who have transcendental ideas are 20th-century thinkers and politicians while those who are not transcendentalist thinker are 18th-century politicians. People such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela had their political career after the nineteenth-century transcendentalist movement, while Alexander Hamilton had his political career prior to the movement. Joseph Stalin is different, his political philosophy he follows was created at the same time as the