I'm doing a comparative essay on two heroes: Nelson Mandela and Ghandi...?

public attention

ethicality of protests

greater goal (who achieved more)

legacy

Rolemodelness

Gandhi and Mandela both owe their fame to their success as leaders of nationalist movements. Yet their global appeal is rooted in their transcendence of narrow nationalism. They are admired internationally for the way that they created national visions that were inclusive, rising above the cleavages of race, religion, and status, and for the way in which their moral stances appealed to humanistic values which had international relevance beyond the immediate concerns of their own political constituencies. Historically, nationalist movements have typically been the project of urban intellectuals, and have been made possible by experiences rooted in urban life, and knowledge of international developments.

Gandhi and Mandela were in large part, products of an extraordinary metropolis – Johannesburg. In different ways, the city’s cosmopolitanism provided them with contexts that were rich in new ideas. They drew on these ideas to generate thought which was nationalist, but which transcended the limits of nationalism. They became nationalist leaders who reached out beyond the narrow confines of conventional nationalist forms and who acknowledged their debts to cosmopolitanism.