1. Mohandas Gandhi
... father later died before Gandhi had finished his schooling. Gandhi later decided to venture toward England to further his education in law school. Mohandas Gandhi went to London to study law in the 1890's. He then went to South Africa to practice law, while there he developed a non-violent movement to help his fellow Indians. Gandhi called this non-violent movement "satyagraha", meaning ... reached out to the people and moved them to act. Gandhi studied and practiced Henry David Thoreau's theory of civil disobedience, (Brower, 85). Gandhi would rather be imprisoned than obey unjust laws...
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