Mahatma Gandhi’s effort for freedom
When a community finds a leader that can change people's ways of thinking you can be sure not only he or she will change the society, but also, that they could crate a huge impact on the world. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the various leaders that the world has had on the past century. He was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar India now called Gujarat. He was assassinated January 30, 1948. (He went to study to London where he became a lawyer (). He tried to find a job in India, but couldn't, so after a while he found one in South Africa (). There, he learned how it felt to be discriminated, this lead to all the nonviolent acts he overcame and gained all his goals in life( Schmidt). Gandhi should be considered a great leader because he showed that terrorism or any kind of violent act can’t be the way to express the disagreement in a place.
Many of the of the worlds strong great leaders have a grand philosophy in common. Gandhi in particular believed never to use violence in his fights, even if others would use it against him (). Gradually, he became convinced that India would receive no real freedom as long as it remained in the British Empire (“Gandhi”).He decided to gather people not violently and boycott some British factories ().This caused not only a great impact on the British, but at the same time it helped the Indian economy. He suggested that people should start buying Indian goods to create more employment in India (). This helped the poor people and gave them enough money to survive and more lives were saved from starvation. He stated to fight for the right of the Indians works in India (). Gandhi was the great leader of the movement in India dedicated to wipe out the unjust social and economic aspects of the caste system (). This help so people would respect more other people. Thanks to this people were becoming more equal. He was arrested twice and sent to jail because he was helping to conquer rights (). This shows that if you want to gain something in life it doesn’t matter what it takes. He did lots of marches and one day he actually asked the whole Indian people to strike for a day and they did it because they were tired of not having freedom () His marches created a huge shock in the Indian culture but also in the world. Since people follow his advice he told them to go in third class wagons (). British at that time were asking the Indian people to pay taxes for the salt (). He marched 140 miles to the sea although at first he had few people with him by the end there were thousands (). This are some of the examples of the methods Gandhi use to gain freedom. Gandhi’s peaceful revolution became popular among people and they blindly follow him (“Gandhi”). People did this because they believe in this method but also realize that it was working. Although Gandhi’s followers were from very different religions meaning they had different thoughts they all had the same philosophy of a nonviolence revolution (“Gandhi”). Even though he always thought positively to change his and peoples way of thinking toward freedom (“Gandhi”). All his acts were done in a peaceful approach conquering people’s minds and hearts.
