... College in London. . Fellow students USE TO snuB ME because I was an Indian. In MY lonely hours I studied philosophy. In MY reading I discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and I was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. In 1891 ... to boycott British goods, courts, and government. This led to MY imprisonment from 1922 to 1924. In 1930, in protest of a salt tax, I led thousands of Indians on a 200-mile (320-kilometer) m...

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... regulations, without following the values and morals of the individual. However, there are those who o not follows society's mold and struggle against everything for what they believe in. .Men like Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi have led the way for to show everyone how to express there opinions in a non-violent manner to express their misgivings ... communication between their mother country. He marched for over 140 miles to the ocean in protest and gathered thousands of people on the way. He had protestors try to enter a salt factory where they were a...

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... regulations, without following the values and morals of the individual. However, there are those who o not follows society's mold and struggle against everything for what they believe in. .Men like Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi have led the way for to show everyone how to express there opinions in a non-violent manner to express their misgivings ... communication between their mother country. He marched for over 140 miles to the ocean in protest and gathered thousands of people on the way. He had protestors try to enter a salt factory where they were a...

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