... is obligated to follow? If one were to ask Gandhi he would agree with the latter. Among many other things, Gandhi believed in civil disobedience and passive resistance, as a way of following is power higher than man-made law. His dedication to these philosophies, and his advocating ... 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 recognizin...

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... he developed a non-violent movement to help his fellow Indians. Gandhi called this non-violent movement "satyagraha", meaning truth force. Methods of Satyagraha included prayers, fasts, penance, strikes, defying certain civil laws, spreading literacy, and removal of social inequalities. He wanted to "improve the lives of the poor and the oppressed" (Brower, 85). Whenever a movement turned violent Gandhi would fast. He ... though he was jailed many times, he always reached out to the people and moved them to act. Gandhi studied and practiced Henry David Thoreau's theory of civil disobedi...

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... 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 I returned to India. Unsuccessful ... revolt. Later in 1906, however, I began MY peaceful revolution. I declared I would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined...

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