He was always determined to do what he set out to do and had no intention of giving up. In 1994, four years after being released from prison, Mandela was elected South Africa's first black president. Nelson's election was a remarkable achievement in the fight for equality. Although the majority of South Africa's population was black, he had grown up in a country where blacks were denied basic rights, let alone being elected president. After working to end the apartheid regime without violence, Nelson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Receiving the prize he declared: “This must be a democratic world respectful of human rights, a world freed from horrors of poverty, hunger and, deprivation and ignorance, relieved by the threat and scourge of civil wars and external aggression and relieved by the great tragedy of millions of people forced to become refugees.”(act.mtv.om) In 1995, opened the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Nelson cared about people of all colors. He believed that everyone deserves what is rightfully theirs