Mahatma Gandhi
The uprising that occurred in 1857, known as the Mutiny, was the act that converted India from an independent country into a British Empire. This was the rule under which Mohnadas (Mahatma) Karamchand Gandhi was born; when he died it was India, a free nation that mourned his loss. The disinherited had recovered their heritage and the "dumb millions" had found their voice. The disarmed had won a great battle and had in the process evolved a moral force such as to compel the attention, and to some degree, the admiration, of the world. The story of this miracle is also the story of Gandhi's life, for him, more than any other was the architect of this miracle. Since then, his grateful countrymen have known him as the Father of the Nation. Gandhi did not free India on his own, but his ideals and principles helped the people to find their own voice once again. The work he did, not only for India and her people, but in showing the world what morals were, and that violence is not always the answer. Gandhi taught others what peace, love and understanding really were, and that they were worth fighting for; not through wars, or brutality; but by taking other more productive steps to make ones voice heard. "Generations to co
me, it may be, will scarce believe such a one as this, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." Einstein, if at the end he seemed like no other man, it is good to remember that when he began he was like any other man. (Nanda. 1954) He left a year later for South Africa to act as a legal consultant; he experienced racial discrimination and decided to fight against the racial prejudices. This is where we begin to see Gandhi’s true passion for all of humanity. He returned to India to organize support for Indians in South Africa, returning later with wife and children. He organized petitions, wrote letters, and called upon British authorities to end the discriminatory laws; this was just the start of his countless acts to right the wrongs committed against those people who don’t have any strong political voice. He spent the rest of his life fighting to make the lives of others better without using the common tools of hate and violence. He would fast for days, and weeks on end to get his point across, for example; in September of 1924, he fasted for 21 days to support Hindu-Muslim Unity, on September 20,1932, began a fast unto death in jail to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans, he the demand was accepted
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