TheValue of Freedom

Peter Colley
Humanities 3340-03
Portfolio # 2 Summary

The values demonstrated in the documents are freedom and bravery. The martyrs believed in the right to worship freely as they saw fit and were willing to die for that freedom. They demonstrated bravery in their willingness to die such a cruel death for the cause of Christ. The contemporary event that parallels that of the martyrs is the struggle for independence and freedom in my native country. The country had been colonized for hundreds of years by the British Empire and now was a free standing republic under the regime led by Ian Smith. Racial segregation was blatant and the wealth of the land was distributed in a most unequal manner. As with any group of people that have been oppressed for a long time we began to long for freedom and began to develop the courage to fight for this freedom. The freedom that we desired was the freedom to walk about freely in our own land without having to carry a “passbook”, we also...