The important part of Gandhi’s story starts when he was about to join a college for further study, however his eldest brother decided to send him to England to become a barrister.

He arrived in London in October, 1888. At first, he had to face numerous handicaps. He almost starved until he found a good vegetarian restaurant. He learned Latin and French, and finally passed his law examination. Now he was a barrister. Gandhi wanted to return home and tell his mother about his travels in London and how he had kept his vows not to eat meat and drink. But when Gandhi returned home home he found his mother had died only weeks before.

Here, in India, Gandhi started practice as a lawyer in Rajkot. After some time, an offer came to him to go to South Africa as a legal adviser to an Indian firm owned by a Muslim businessman there. Gandhiji accepted the offer and in May 1893, he went t

The story of Gandhi is so powerful that many people have copied his method of fighting violence with non-violence. Martin Luther King was one of those people.

Gandhi raised an objection that he had a first class ticket, but nobody heard him. A policeman pushed him out with his bag and baggage. The train left. Gandhi spent the night shivering in cold, but he did not touch his luggage.

King said,“The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence however, is emptiness and bitterness. This is the thing I’m concerned about. Let us fight passionately and unrelentingly for the goals of justice and peace, but let’s be sure that our hands are clean in this struggle. Let us never fight with falsehood and violence and hate and malice, but always fight with love, so that, when the day comes that the walls of segregation have completely crumbled in Montgomery. That we will be able to live with people as their brothers and sisters.” (Stanford.edu). In it you can clearly see that King is against violence.

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