... that the person 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 them to his countrymen enabled him to help free India from ... in South Africa Gandhi began to develop his philosophy, known 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...

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