as a young boy Mandela had a different idea about freedom. As a boy he wanted an unrestrained life; but as an adult he realized that freedom was an essential ingredient for a dignified life.
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Mandela had different concepts of freedom at different stages of life. As a boy, he had an illusion of freedom. He thought he was born free. As long he obeyed his elders he had the freedom to run in the fields swim in the stream and ride on the back of bulls. As a student he cared for transitory freedom — freedom to stay out at night, read the books of his choice and go where he liked. When he became a young man he yearned for basic and honourable freedoms of achieving his potential, earning his keep, marrying, having a family and living a lawful life. Slowly his concept of freedom widened especially when he joined the African National Congress. He realized that true freedom is not individual freedom but freedom for all.
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When Nelson Mandela was a boy, he thought he was free. To him, freedom was doing whatever he wanted to do; to run in the fields near my mother's hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls etc. He was contented as long as he followed the social norms.
As a student, he had percieved freedom differently. He wanted freedom only for himself. When he discovered that he was a victim of oppression and discrimination, he understood that his perception about freedom was unreal. He could realize the bondages when he was deprived of the basic rights of humans like achieving his potential, earning his keep, marriage and a family. With the sense of reality of his plight, he observed that the people of his own race were the victims of the same oppression.
This inflamed his purpose for the collective struggle against the injustice. It gave him the moral strength to become a courageous man.