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    Thoreau, Gandhi, and Mandela were really important leaders that did a lot during their time and made an enormous impact on their societies. This three pacemakers were people that believed in themselves and made an enormous impact on them and their countries. For many people they might not look like leaders, but for rebels that went against the law just because of their beliefs, but in reality they made the government less powerful, abusive, and controlling. They might’ve not modified as soon as…

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    In this passage, Gandhi talks about what nonviolence means to him. He talks about how important it is for him and his people to fight with the method of nonviolence. He talks about how nonviolence is a part of his life and how important it is for his movements like satyagraha, noncooperation, and civil disobedience. He also says non violence is the only way India can gain freedom. I believe that he is right, India gained their freedom, because of Gandhi and his non-violence method of fighting.…

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    personified in Rahul Gandhi – a man who’s not just politically incompetent but currently out on bail, charged with criminal misappropriation and breach of trust. Whether it is the result of a self-defeating personality disorder or just plain ineptitude, it is incumbent upon the rest of the Congress’s leadership, along with its party workers, to recognize this fundamental limitation within their party and to do away with it. They must decide whether they will agree to a Gandhi-Mukt-Congress in…

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    presume to probe into the faults of others. This quote is from the Mahatma Gandhi one of the most influential people in history. Gandhi was an indian activist and the leader of the indian independence movement. Gandhi was powerful because he was self driven, intelligent, and brave. Mahatma Gandhi has changed India/the world in many different ways with his combination of leadership qualities one being his braveness. “Mahatma Gandhi was the most prominent leader of the Indian Independence…

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    same goal in mind, the methods through which they hoped to achieve these goals were drastically different. In Africa, Franz Fanon was calling for a violent removal of the French from Algeria through his book The Wretched of the Earth. In Asia, M.K. Gandhi was writing his pleas to the Indian people to push the British out of India through far less violent means. If these two men are fighting for the same cause, how is it that their methods were so different? One can answer this question by…

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    Gandhi and Ambedkar both of them were prominent figures of Indian freedom struggle as well as nation building. Both of them wanted to build an India not only free from colonial exploitation, but also free from political, economic and social discrimination. Although they had similarities, they also had many dissimilarities and differences between their views on socio- economic- political freedom and state building of India. As a mass leader, Gandhi was more concerned about all the people of India…

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    Mohandas K. Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. express their respect for Henry David Thoreau in an except of their writing from “Passive Resisters” and “A Centenary Gathering for Henry David Thoreau.” In their writings, there is also a relevance towards transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is a philosophy that our knowledge of reality is based on our own understanding rather than scientific evidence. Thoreau was a transcendentalist himself. Thoreau and his ideology influenced Gandhi and King…

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    Both Gandhi and Hitler were influential people. Although Gandhi was from India and Hitler was from Germany, they both had a sense of nationalism. Nationalism differed between Gandhi’s India and Hitler’s Germany. This is represented in a few different ways, Including Gandhi’s peace, Hitler’s violence, and their influence of future generations. They had long lasting effects for not only their nation, but the world. Hitler and Gandhi both had very different views. Gandhi was an advocate for…

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    different in many ways, but were committed to fighting for equality. Gandhi like Mandela studied law. Gandhi practiced in South Africa. He advocated in South Africa for the Indian population who were being discriminated against. Gandhi got to experience the demeaning practice of segregation, when he was kicked off a first-class train in South Africa. (Philosophy in the 21st Century, and Anand…

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    Civil disobedience is defined as members of a community choosing to actively disobey laws in protest of a cause. As proponents of civil disobedience, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi advocated for those following their causes to complete acts disregarding unjust laws put in place to draw attention to their separate causes. This method of fighting for a cause emphasizes understanding of the necessity for change, that people are actively defying the law to draw attention to the unfair systems…

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