Nelson Mandela is a person who had a long walk to freedom. He was a democratically elected president with 62% of the vote in South Africa and being devoted to increasing human being’s freedom, he got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Because his activities were anti-government, he was put in jail for 27 years.
He was born in Qunu, south Africa on july 18, 1918. He graduated from mission school and then studied law in Jahannesberg. He was interested in law early in his life. He later joined the African National Congress(ANC) the goal of which was to end the unjust system of apartheid in south Africa.
He has spent the rest of his life after retirement raising money for children’s charities. Nelson Mandela showed a good model of leadership, and he got to make many changes in the fights for freedom.
He has lived his whole life as his sayings in his autobiography in 1994: the greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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