2.What religious values might have motivated the Olympic Project for Human Rights protests at the 1968 Olympic Games?
The purpose of this paper is to review the Olympic Project for Human Rights protests at the 1968 Olympic Games. The Olympic Games are an inspiration to many people and give young people an opportunity to dream that it could one day be them standing on the podium. They have the power to unite people from around the world to celebrate with pride the achievements of amateur athletes. Sport has emerged as such an effective learning methodology for human rights education across the globe. In “Ethics and Moral Behavior in Sport” by Dr. Doris Corbett, she expressed “Sport has universal value, and is a social movement striving to contribute …show more content…
It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination” (South Africa and the Global Game, 2010). It is always imperative to take into consideration the impact of apartheid in South Africa and how apartheid was finally abolished in South Africa. Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, who had Christian values, used sports and religion to unite racially divided South Africa. He regarded Rugby almost like a civil religion by utilizing it as a method to generate a competition from challenges and unifying tool for the divided people of South Africa. Non-white South Africans really began to suffer when apartheid was written into the law; this was a system that segregated South Africa’s population racially and considered non-whites inferior. (South Africa and the Global Game, 2010). During that time, non-white South Africans were left without equal rights compared to white people, and the access to opportunities as well as their participation in society was limited because of race. These protests marked a turning point for the civil rights movement in the United States, which produced one of well-known revolutionary movement. Nevertheless, after activists fought for many years, Christianity became a powerful influence in South Africa, uniting large amount of people in a common faith. The connection between …show more content…
According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, religion means to bind together again that which was once bound but has since been torn apart or broken. This means that religious values provide a human rights vision about how one can be bound to a meaningful world. With these values, human rights could provide a harmonious social life on both the national and international levels. For this reason, we need to acknowledge that faith is seen as the deepest foundation of human rights. Per religious people, they believe that every human subject is related to God(s) independently of their relation to other subjects or to earthly political and social systems. This belief states that human rights have to do with the individual person, establishing the status of the person of a society. On that account, the proper consideration of human rights has a better chance of sustaining its case if it begins from the recognition of a common dignity or worthiness of respect among members of a community than if it assumes some comprehensive catalogue of claims that might be enforceable. On the whole, I would like to conclude that human rights consisted of religious values. Relationships between sport and religion are similarly depicted in ways that reinforce a mindset towards peace. Even though sports and religion share many similarities, many people accept as true that sport is less important than religion, or vice versa.
The purpose of this paper is to review the Olympic Project for Human Rights protests at the 1968 Olympic Games. The Olympic Games are an inspiration to many people and give young people an opportunity to dream that it could one day be them standing on the podium. They have the power to unite people from around the world to celebrate with pride the achievements of amateur athletes. Sport has emerged as such an effective learning methodology for human rights education across the globe. In “Ethics and Moral Behavior in Sport” by Dr. Doris Corbett, she expressed “Sport has universal value, and is a social movement striving to contribute …show more content…
It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination” (South Africa and the Global Game, 2010). It is always imperative to take into consideration the impact of apartheid in South Africa and how apartheid was finally abolished in South Africa. Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, who had Christian values, used sports and religion to unite racially divided South Africa. He regarded Rugby almost like a civil religion by utilizing it as a method to generate a competition from challenges and unifying tool for the divided people of South Africa. Non-white South Africans really began to suffer when apartheid was written into the law; this was a system that segregated South Africa’s population racially and considered non-whites inferior. (South Africa and the Global Game, 2010). During that time, non-white South Africans were left without equal rights compared to white people, and the access to opportunities as well as their participation in society was limited because of race. These protests marked a turning point for the civil rights movement in the United States, which produced one of well-known revolutionary movement. Nevertheless, after activists fought for many years, Christianity became a powerful influence in South Africa, uniting large amount of people in a common faith. The connection between …show more content…
According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, religion means to bind together again that which was once bound but has since been torn apart or broken. This means that religious values provide a human rights vision about how one can be bound to a meaningful world. With these values, human rights could provide a harmonious social life on both the national and international levels. For this reason, we need to acknowledge that faith is seen as the deepest foundation of human rights. Per religious people, they believe that every human subject is related to God(s) independently of their relation to other subjects or to earthly political and social systems. This belief states that human rights have to do with the individual person, establishing the status of the person of a society. On that account, the proper consideration of human rights has a better chance of sustaining its case if it begins from the recognition of a common dignity or worthiness of respect among members of a community than if it assumes some comprehensive catalogue of claims that might be enforceable. On the whole, I would like to conclude that human rights consisted of religious values. Relationships between sport and religion are similarly depicted in ways that reinforce a mindset towards peace. Even though sports and religion share many similarities, many people accept as true that sport is less important than religion, or vice versa.