Cry The Beloved Country And Mandela's

Today, women in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East suffer oppression every day. What they wear, how they look, their education, and almost every other aspect of their lives fall victim to the domination of their husbands and fathers. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, Anne Paton’s “Why I’m Fleeing South Africa”, and Nelson Mandela’s 1964 speech, those who are oppressed find different ways to respond. People who are being oppressed respond in ways that will make the biggest impact on their current situation.
When some people are feeling oppressed, they want to speak out and have their voices heard. In Cry, the Beloved Country, Arthur Jarvis speaks out against oppression in the form of his writings. Although Arthur isn’t being oppressed himself, he still wants others to see the oppression within the Native community of South Africa. In CTBC, Jarvis believes that it is unacceptable to destroy the tribal system without creating something else for the Natives to fall back on. He wants to
In Nelson Mandela’s 1964 speech, Mandela speaks about laws of oppression that have been passed, leading to poverty and the breakdown of family. Nelson points out that this has led to “a breakdown in moral standards, to an alarming rise in illegitimacy, and to growing violence which erupts not only politically, but everywhere. Life in the townships is dangerous. There is not a day that goes by without somebody being stabbed or assaulted.” (P. 6-7) The black people of South Africa have turned to crime because they have no other way of being able to live. They can’t earn high wages, so they steal and rob. They cannot learn, so they do not understand the moral expectations of society and right versus wrong. Today, the people of many cities still start riots as a way to seek justice in an unjust society. Others do unlawful things as a way of coping and