... Later, the Indian struggle for complete independence from the British Empire included a number of spectacular nonviolent campaigns. Perhaps the most notable was the yearlong Salt campaign in which 100,000 Indians were jailed for deliberately violating the Salt Laws. These actions brought such world attention that change in social structure was unavoidable. Gandhi did not think up civil disobedience by himself, he ... read many books on the subject including Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience. Gandhi was very impressed with Thoreau's writings stating, "[Thoreau] taught n...

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