Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar India. At the young age of thirteen he married

When Gandhi arrived in South Africa he found himself being treated as a third class citizen. It was then that he began to fight for Indian immigrant’s civil rights in South Africa. During his twenty-year stay in South Africa Gandhi began to develop his philosophy, known to Indians as Satyagraha, or, “Truth and Firmness.” He studied the works of the 19-century American writer Henry David Thoreau; the most influential on Gandhi was “Civil Disobedience.” As a result of his years of studies Gandhi’s contributions to the Indians in South Africa were, the government recognizing Indian marriages and the abolition of the poll tax.

There are some instances where Gandhi’s philosophy may be useless. Satyagraha seems to rely on there being a “higher law”. So it makes sense that if a group was being oppressed by something or someone, which contradicted the “higher law”, then civil disobedience would be effective. This means that there has to be someone or a group of people clearly disobeying the “higher law”. What happens then, if there are two groups fighting but both have a reputable view of what the “higher law” would have them do? An example of this is the Palestinian Israeli conflict. The way that these two groups are dealing with their conflict is as far away from Gandhi’s philosophy as it possibly could be. This may be why it is so

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