Nelson Mandela didn’t like the way some laws in South Africa only favor white people, he had a degree in Laws meaning that he was a law person but at some point he fought against the apartheid law. Apartheid was a political and social system that separated whites from black they didn’t have the same privileges, they couldn’t hold any political position in the government. In Robert Ray’s view, “…the outlaw hero’s motto was “I don’t know what the law says, but I do know what’s right or wrong” (454). Although Nelson Mandela didn’t actual say this, his behavior and actions upheld that motto. He was a lawyer who fought the system and went against the law by organizing meetings then they found there and uncovering paper working documents with him, he got caught and they conceived him of conspiracy to violently overthrow the government and he was also accused of being an activist. Nelson Mandela was banned three times from entering Johannesburg living the country without papers but he still left the country without paper by after then he got imprisoned for 28 years in three different prisons still he didn’t stop when he was in prison he taught people, he was working on his degree while in the prison and he kept corresponding with some anti-apartheid activists.
Nelson Mandela was ready to do everything for South Africans even sacrificing himself as Robert B. Ray wrote in his thematic paradigm that official heroes take public duties that demand personal sacrifice (452). In Nelson Mandela’s speech “I am ready to die” that he said on 11th, July, 1963 at Rivornia, he showed how brave and how he really wanted to see the change in South Africa. Nelson Mandela said that he wasn’t afraid of dying after all bad things he went through, he said “struggle is my life” after all year he spent in