Compare And Contrast Robespierre And Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatmas Gandhi and Maximilien Robespierre, both attempted to change the social and governing structures of their nations, but both hit difficult obstacles throughout their journey. Gandhi and Robespierre had many similarities and differences, but had the same overall goal. Although Gandhi had a different approach to reach his goals than Robespierre, they both made great efforts and sacrifices to get freedom for their country. Though, Gandhi and Robespierre had the same ideas of how to change their country, they still had some major differences between them. Gandhi always believed in nonviolent protests and acts, while Robespierre embraced violence. If any of Gandhi’s followers made any type of violent act towards anything, Gandhi would go on hunger strikes until the violence stopped. Unlike Gandhi, Robespierre would encourage the French people to keep the violence …show more content…
Both Gandhi and Robespierre had the same goal to overthrow their current governing system in favor for their people and to get their followers proper rights. Gandhi’s main goal was to achieve equality for all of his people no matter what country you lived in. Robespierre wanted his people to have equal rights, but also wanted to get rid of the Estates system and start a Republic. Gandhi never had the intention of granting India their own country, all he wanted was his people’s independence and equality for his people. Following in Gandhi's footsteps, Robespierre didn’t have the intention of Ruling France, he just wanted to change their governing system and to fix King Louis mistakes. Both Gandhi and Robespierre aimed for independence for their people and both achieved it. The two leaders revolted for different causes in their country, but the effect’s in the end were similar for the two figures corresponding