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Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

            Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were civil right activists who took a form of action to obtain equal rights amongst their society. Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to serve the Indian population after failing to establish a legal practice in Bombay. To attain his ultimate goal, Gandhi had to prove worthy of its rewards. His most supreme objective was to induce British rule to calmly and peacefully leave India. He knew that the only way this could happen was if Britain began to respect his ideas and see that his belief truly was just. Gandhi spoke of nonviolent resistance as a method to help the opposing side see how they were committing sins. He knew that he would have to incite his fellow Indians to take the moral high road in the conflict with the British. In the movie he said, To gain independence, we must prove worthy of it. Martin Luther King, Jr. also encouraged his fellow African Americans with words that would make the white people see how deserving they were of equal treatment. King states in Stride Toward Freedom, I came to see early that the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to the Negro in his struggle for freedom. (King, 85). Violence destroys a community. No one wants to live among violence, but people still commit brutal acts everyday. Gandhi and King both recognized the inherent evil in all violence and worked to show its effects. King stated, if I respond to hate with a reciprocal hate I do nothing but intensify the cleavage in broken society. (King, 106). What he means is that violence is detrimental to our happiness, and only by meeting hate with love can we help to mend its damage. Gandhi proves this point by saying, An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. Not only is this statement true concerning our reaction to others" sins, but it also shows us that by hating others we are mostly hurting ourselves.


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