... . 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 nothing he was not prepared to practice himself" (Thoreau 422). Nonviolent civil disobedience is referred to as Satyagraha in India, meaning literally "clinging to truth" or in Gandhi ... the government of any say in national policy (Gandhi 115,116) Nonviolence is active. Although to some the word nonviolence implies passivity, nonviolence is actually an active...

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