Mohandas Gandhi, born on October 2, 1869, led non-violent independence movements in India and South Africa. Gandhi was an advocate for the civil rights of Indians, and had a background in law. Among his many achievements were the organized boycotts against the British through methods of civil disobedience. Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, which at the time was part of the British Empire. As a child Gandhi hated school and rebelled, doing things such as smoking and stealing small amounts of money.…
Mohandas Gandhi was a lawyer who practiced in colonial South Africa and eventually led a nonviolent revolution for Indian independence. Gandhi was taught from birth to value all life as holy and respect all religions. The British controlled India for 200 years and Gandhi resented the British influence on his country, and wanted people to live freely. Although Gandhi could have chosen other methods to achieve Indian independence, his nonviolent civil disobedience, willingness to be incarcerated, and not viewing Britain as an enemy, led to an India independent from British rule.…
Take Gandhi's famous salt march, for example. In an effort to avoid paying taxes on salt to the British government, he led a massive march spanning 24 days. While he was ultimately jailed for this for a short time, the march spurred on India's journey for independence. He acted as a catalyst, helping millions of people gain their freedom after years of tyrannical rule and oppression.…
An act of civil disobedience should only be use for the act of right and justices, and the people of world to understand its injustice systems and flaws. In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Speech, he extends to the point “If had sneezed” and died, my inspirations/ideas will be carried out through out his people. His purpose of an act of civil disobedience was to have equality between black and white Americans, to be peaceful and have a friend. As for Mohandas Gandhi, his motto for civil disobedience, ‘We will respect without any violent actions, but we will not obey any of your injustice laws.’ His purpose of an act of civil disobedience was to revolt the government in peace not violence with his followers standing side by side. The strangeness…
Gandhi used non-violent tactics to free British rule in India. Martin Luther King Jr. mostly used…
In his home country of India Gandhi also inspired peaceful resistance towards British rule which eventually brought about Indian independence. However the path towards such independence was littered with violence as some rebels would take the path of violence rather than non-violence. This caused for only “disobedience” instead of “civil disobedience” so that Gandhi’s peaceful resistance may have begun independence, but it also began violent struggles against the government as well as religion later on (Costly). Although the armed rebellions followed the Jainism path of “self-help”, they did not respect that every human contains a soul to be respected (“Jainism”), and even though Gandhi did not support such actions, his civil disobedience did inspire them so that he had both positive and negative impacts on society. Inspired by Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. also impacted the free society both positively and negatively.…
Nations all around the world have fueled the rise of various leaders, some changing their nation and country for the better, while others dragged their country down and lead to the death of millions. Two examples of this are when Mohandas Gandhi had risen to fame in India, and when Adolf Hitler took power in Germany.…
“Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American philosopher, essayist, and poet, was born in Concord, Massachusetts. Following his graduation from Harvard University (1837), he worked for a short time as a teacher, but quit over his disagreement with the practice of punishing students by whipping them”(Axelrod, Alan and Phillips 202). Thoreau wrote an essay called The Civil Disobedience that was based on his life experience, “he was jailed one night for his refusal to pay a poll tax to support the United States’ war on Mexico, an experience that led to the essay “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) later titled “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (Axelrod, Alan and Phillips 202). Thoreau supported the idea that an individual should protest the…
Gandhi was one of the first people to use nonviolence in a major way. A book tells how Gandhi went to jail instead of others because he did not fear a jail cell and proved he was nonviolent. When Gandhi organized a march officers beat the protesters and injured them severely, but they did not raise an arm to fight back. Gandhi sent a letter to Lord Irwin saying how british rule is a curse and he will stop at nothing to free his people from british rule. Gandhi initiated the first acts of nonviolence and won freedom for the people of India.…
Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it does not cause violence. Throughout history, we have witnessed peaceful protests change our laws. From Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr., we have seen the practice of nonviolent symbolic protests have a better outcome than wars. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India.…
He lead India's independence movement, and started many peaceful boycotts against the British. He changed the world. He practically started the idea of civil disobedience, teaching people that violence isn't necessary to make a statement or catch attention.…
Gandhi preached non violence at all costs, even in the face of harsh British retaliation in several cases. In this method, he created one of the largest protest movements of all time in support of Indian self rule. In his famous Salt March to the sea, Gandhi led hundreds of thousands of Indians in a 250 mile march to the sea against an extremely unjust salt taxation, and against the British rule as a whole. Hundreds of thousands joined, and despite harsh reactions by the British, was completely peaceful on the part of the protestors. This march gained international sympathy, and led to the dismissal of the salt tax by the British. Gandhi was eventually successful in making India self ruling, the entire time devoted to nonviolent methods. In this way, a new democratic society rose up through nonviolent…
He did so without violence by participating in labor strikes as well as putting together a huge non-violent march. The government ended up listening to Gandhi and the people standing with him. Gandhi helped fight injustices in society for the rest of his life but only nonviolently. If violence ever occurred when people were protesting with Gandhi he would stop the march or protest, and even when people with opposing opinions attacked with violence, Gandhi only fought back in nonviolent ways. In many cases Gandhi did achieve what he was standing up for which means that he did positively impact society even though he was was resisting the law, but it was in a peaceful way.…
Civil Disobedience in the past has provoked change in the world and in society. Mohandas Gandhi was a Hindu pacifist and equal rights activist. He was put in jail for his civil disobedience many times and during one of his many trials he spoke to the judge and said: “In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” Gandhi spent 20 years living in South Africa fighting for the rights on the Indian populous there. The Boer power in charge eventually caved to some of his demands and when Gandhi returned to India he spent the rest of his life fighting to free India from the British, break the caste…
Mohandas Gandhi launched a policy of nonviolent noncooperation against the British following the Massacre at Amritsar in 1919 (Boss, 2012). He used his moral outrage guided by reason to effect change in the cultural norms of India and ultimately helped India gain independence in 1947. Gandhi’s efforts have greatly impacted social and political reform, and have influenced later civil rights movements.…