How Did Nelson Mandela Impact Society

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Imagine living in a world where the color of your skin determined where you could eat,walk,vote,live, go to school and even go to the bathroom. This is what Nelson Mandela and the colored people were dealing with in the 1940’s to the 1990’s in South Africa, and Nelson Mandela wanted to change that. Mandela impacted his society by negotiating the end of the apartheid movement, worked hard to achieve civil rights for the colored people, and building a positive relationship between the whites and the African Americans. Mandela is most known for his heroic efforts to end the apartheid in South Africa. “Apartheid means separateness” (Hart). In South Africa it grew to become a system of governance that discriminated against black South …show more content…

“On May 9,1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament choose Nelson Mandela to be the first black president of South Africa’’(Biography.com). Mandela wasted no time and got right to work he created a new constitution, that gave colored people the same rights as whites. Mandala created a positive relationship by making making speeches and saying that South Africans should not feel uneasy or threatened. He said South Africa’s constitution “belongs to all of us, not just the ruling party, or one section of South Africa.We all wrote this collectively with our blood , some with lives, with our tears and with our sweat.We claim it as ours, it enshrines the rights that much as live as South Africa's and we will protect it because it belong to us’’(Hart). Mandela made it his best efforts to make everyone feel included and “taught his people the most important thing how to forgive and move on”(History.com staff). Even though Mandela was doing this people often questioned him on how he could forgive the people that put him in jail. Mandela said “As I walked out the door toward my freedom, I knew if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and bitterness behind that I would still be in prison”(Brawn, 21).This means that if Mandela came out of jail with the same anger and hatred it would be like he never moved

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