Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
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He turned nonviolent resistance into a weapon that broke an empire. Gandhi led India out from under British rule without firing a shot, then died by gunfire from his own side — assassinated for defending the Muslims he'd tried to protect during Partition's blood-soaked aftermath.
Born in coastal Gujarat in 1869, Mohandas Gandhi trained as a lawyer in London, then spent 21 years in South Africa starting in 1893, where he raised a family and first tested nonviolent resistance in a civil rights campaign. Returning to India in 1915, he took over the Indian National Congress in 1921 and led nationwide campaigns against British rule — organising peasants and urban laborers, adopting the dhoti to identify with the rural poor, and marching 400 km in 1930 to challenge the salt tax. He was imprisoned repeatedly. When Britain granted independence in August 1947, it carved the sub…
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil.
We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them.
In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.... Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will require centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation.
I do not wish to suggest that because we were one nation we had no differences, but it is submitted that our leading men travelled throughout India . . .
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