CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

NELSON MANDELA LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“We have achieved our political emancipation.” What is the meaning of emancipation?
A
freedom from restriction
B
enslavement
C
slavery
D
both B and C
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally, in discussion of many matters.

Detailed explanation-2: -Theory: We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Detailed explanation-3: -Political emancipation is liberating human beings, as participants in political life, from factors that would distort that life: e.g. established religion or property qualifications for voting. These factors still shape people’s lives even after the factors have been deprived of political significance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Solution : South Africa and the blacks have achieved their political emancipation. Mandela pledges to liberate all his people from the bondage of poverty, wants, suffering, gender and other discriminations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Emancipation is any effort to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality etc. Mandela has achieved political emancipation because he has brought equality and social rights to end racial discrimination.

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