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How Is Mahatma Gandhi And Nelson Mandela

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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

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