Gandhi's View Of Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau was considered as the first hippie. He avoid government taxes and laws. He was an extremely independent citizen, which means he avoid consumerism and business products. When he got thrown in jail, one of his friends bail him out and Henry knew he had to protest for his true freedom and against government corruption. It was a civil disobedience, he says that government doesn’t do valuable things. People do valuable things.
Mohandas K. Gandhi was known as the purest soul. In India, the British government made these laws called “salt laws”. Gandhi spoke to his followers before they made the movement called the Dandi march. He reminded them that they should believe in nonviolence, he ask them to break the salt laws if he gets

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