Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a charismatic
leader who brought the cause of India's independence from the British colonial rule to the attention of the world. This paper examines how he was a pacifist, a human rights activist and mental leader of the Indian movement of independence, which, in 1947, introduced the concept of a non-violent resistance to end the British colonial rule of India. It also discusses how Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence, which he termed satyagraha, influenced nationalist and international movements for peaceful change.

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"Gandhi's concept or advocacy of nonviolent resistance to authority has proved effective in certain governments, especially in dictatorial governments in Southeast Asia. In 1986 in the Philippines, people in the streets gathered around the military headquarters to protect the rebelling soldiers from the attack of the established government. This was a celebrated event called EDSA People Power 1 known and watched the world over. It led to the eventual surrender of the dictator President Ferdinand Marcos and the installation of Corazon Aquino into the presidency. Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience method was used in the successful and nearly bloodless popular revolution."

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