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Martin Luther King

Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King Jr. was a twentieth-century American Baptist activist and pastor.

¿Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?

Martin Luther King Jr. Biography

He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and was ordained a Baptist minister at the age of seventeein 1951 he graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary, did his graduate work at Boston University, In Crozer and Boston he began to deal with the ideas of the Indian nationalist Mahatma Gandhi, which became the center of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest.He born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta and died April 4, 1968 in Memphis at age 39). known primarily for peacefully fighting segregation and racial discrimination in the United States and recite the famous speech "I have a dream".

¿Who Was Nelson Mandela?

Nelson Mandela was a South African activist, lawyer and politician.

Nelson Mandela Biography

Nelson Mandela was born into a family of South African royalty. After a happy childhood, full of excellent education. Mandela became young and escaped from his tribe once he learned that a marriage had been arranged for him. After graduating as a lawyer, He began a path of social activism with youth groups affiliated with the African national congress political party.

In 1956 Mandela was arrested for the first time and tried for treason. International pressure on the South African Government succeeded in releasing Mandela in 1990. His struggle to abolish the apartheid law and end racial discrimination in his country earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He died at the age of 95 on December 5, 2013.

"I have a dream, that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the nature of their character" Martin Luther King Jr.

"A man who takes freedom from another is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness"Nelson Mandela