Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela all fought for peoples rights against their government. They all stood up for what they thought was right and unfair against the people. Mohandas Gandhi protested against the British government and when the British started taxing salt on the people of India, he didn’t think it was right. He peacefully protested by marching to the ocean and claiming that the salt belonged to the people. Gandhi stated “ you may choose any device to break the salt monopoly” meaning that you can break the law in order to show the government you don’t want any of their taxes on things that belong to the people. Nelson Mandela was a South African man who was well educated and stood up against white supremacist
