Question

mandelas inauguration speech
by nelson mandela (excerpt)
10 may 1994
1
2 of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud
3 our daily deeds as ordinary south africans must produce an actual south african reality that will reinforce humanitys belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for glorious life for all
4 to my compatriots, i have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveldt
5 each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal the national mood changes as the seasons change
6 we are moved by a sense of joy and exhilaration when the grass turns green and the flowers bloom
7 that spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in a terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world, precisely because it has become the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practice of racism and racial oppression
8 we, the people of south africa, feel fulfilled that humanity has
select the correct answer from the drop - down menu
read this excerpt from mandelas speech:
\that spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in a terrible conflict. we have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people we enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all south africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity.\
now read this excerpt from president lincolns gettysburg address:
\but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\
both excerpts address issues of race. in addition, like mandelas speech, lincolns speech specifically addresses the concept of

Explanation:

Mandela's speech talks about building a society after the conflict (the terrible conflict that tore the country apart) where South Africans can live with dignity. Lincoln's speech mentions the unfinished work (related to the war - the conflict) and the new birth of freedom for the nation (rebuilding after the war - a form of conflict). Both are about what comes after a conflict (war in Lincoln's case, the conflict of racism and racial oppression in Mandela's case) in terms of the nation's future.

Answer:

the rebuilding of a nation after conflict