Mahatma Gandhi's Impact On Society

All the speeches and articles that our class has read are so different in themselves, but have one thing in common. To teach people that they can be involved in their government, and to fight for what is right. They teach us that you can be from any ethnicity, age, or any social class, and still have a voice as powerful as a lion. That is what makes all of these articles and speeches have a great impact on our society and the way American thinks today. Upon further examination, all the articles have one common goal in mind. To advocate change in government, break free from oppression, but not with violence. Also if the government would change how would it affect the people. President Ronald Reagan and Sojourner Truth reveal how a controlling …show more content…
Sojourner Truth also wanted to be treated as equally as the caucasian women in that society. Both of these freedom fighters wanted nothing more than to be free from the people who suppressed them in the first place. “There are two ways of countering injustice” (Applebee 377). Gandhi was a very peaceful man who never used violence as a teaching method. What he is saying is you can either use violence, or you can spend your time on Earth trying to spread peace to be free from something. Sojourner also used peace as a teaching method. “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone…” (Gilbert and Gubar 253). She and her fellow African Americans were being oppressed by white men and women. Sojourner Truth also uses the pronoun “we” to signify that all women of different races need to stand together to gain the rights that women did not get in at that time. Gandhi and Truth both used their own methods to promote change, and inspire people the use peace as a form of …show more content…
President Ronald Reagan and the Declaration of Independence prove and test that method when trying to gain freedom from controlling governments. “Yet, I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the message of this wall, a message of triumph” (Eidenmuller 3). Berlin at the time was going through something that should not have even happened. They were separated when they needed to stay together to fight the Soviets. With the East Germans going through what they went through they still hold onto hope knowing that someday they will be free and have happiness back. The Declaration of Independence was a proclamation towards the British that we are no longer under there control, and that we are a free nation. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance...” (National Archives 4). The United States at that time will do anything in there power to keep the people free. They want to do this because that is what America is. A melting pot of people trying to live their own lives as free as they want to. Throughout history the people had to deal with a great hardship of being under governmental control and not have the dream they