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One man we always here about doing great things for the people around him was Mohandas Gandhi. Yet a lot of people don’t really know what he has done. We hear or see quotes of what he has said and despite how accurate they are in our lives they are also very true, meaningful words from a man who cared about people. When we wanted to make a point he didn’t want to do a protest with violence. Gandhi took the vow of brahmacharya which had allowed him to come up with the concept of satyagraha, which means truth force. He would use this in many protest he conducted. The first time Gandhi used satyagraha was in 1907 in South Africa. “He organized an opposition to the Asiatic Registration Act ( which was known as the Black Act)” ( Rosenberg, 2013). The law was passed and it required all Indians to get no matter age or sex to be fingerprinted and they had to keep registration papers on them at all times. Gandhi and the people protested using satyagraha and many protesters were beaten and sent to jail, Gandhi was one of them. It was his first arrest. It took seven long years of protest before the act was repealed. “Gandhi had proved that nonviolent protest could be immensely successful” (Rosenberg, 2013). This was a significant social change Gandhi was a part of and the first one he used nonviolent tactics to get what he and his people needed.
Another great significant social change Gandhi was a part of was The Salt March. The British owned India and the Indian people were feeling the effects of it when they weren’t allowed to own or salt not sold produced by the British government, it was illegal ( Rosenberg, 2013). In 1928 Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (INC) proclaimed to the British government if India was not granted the status of Commonwealth they would organize a state wide protest (Rosenberg, 2013). Of course the British government did not grant them this and Gandhi once again using satyagraha started his protest. This protest was to...
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One man we always here about doing great things for the people around him was Mohandas Gandhi. Yet a lot of people don’t really know what he has done. We hear or see quotes of what he has said and despite how accurate they are in our lives they are also very true, meaningful words from a man who cared about people. When we wanted to make a point he didn’t want to do a protest with violence. Gandhi took the vow of brahmacharya which had allowed him to come up with the concept of satyagraha, which means truth force. He would use this in many protest he conducted. The first time Gandhi used satyagraha was in 1907 in South Africa. “He organized an opposition to the Asiatic Registration Act ( which was known as the Black Act)” ( Rosenberg, 2013). The law was passed and it required all Indians to get no matter age or sex to be fingerprinted and they had to keep registration papers on them at all times. Gandhi and the people protested using satyagraha and many protesters were beaten and sent to jail, Gandhi was one of them. It was his first arrest. It took seven long years of protest before the act was repealed. “Gandhi had proved that nonviolent protest could be immensely successful” (Rosenberg, 2013). This was a significant social change Gandhi was a part of and the first one he used nonviolent tactics to get what he and his people needed.
Another great significant social change Gandhi was a part of was The Salt March. The British owned India and the Indian people were feeling the effects of it when they weren’t allowed to own or salt not sold produced by the British government, it was illegal ( Rosenberg, 2013). In 1928 Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (INC) proclaimed to the British government if India was not granted the status of Commonwealth they would organize a state wide protest (Rosenberg, 2013). Of course the British government did not grant them this and Gandhi once again using satyagraha started his protest. This protest was to...