Today we are going back in time all the way back to Gandhi. We have come to a time where it is Important to remember and respect what he did and how he did it. Gandhi’s full name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi was born into a merchant family in India on 2nd October 1869. When Gandhi was 19 he traveled to England so he could study law. Whilst he was there he read a book called Civil Disobedience. Gandhi was brought up a Hindu which is one of the reasons why he believes in non-violence. In this time he went to jail twice for civil disobedience. Gandhi left England in 1893 so he could practise law in South Africa where he was troubled by the amount of racism. He stayed in South Africa for a futher 20 years fighting for injustice without …show more content…
To make a point Indians mached to the Indians sea to make salt. This was illegal for them to do it even though it was their sea. Another thing that he did was to burn register cards that the Africans had to carry around even though it was their country. This was illegal as they were goverment property. By Gandhi getting Indians to so stop buying british items it caused the English to have less money as well as show that they can and will live alone. When Gandhi walked to the Indian Ocean to make salt it proved that they can do what they want with what they can get from India. When people used violence Gandhi would fast to stop it and have peace.This nearly resulted in Gandhi having an early death however the violence stoped and there was peace so he stayed alive. Once Gandhi was in a first class carrige in a train when he got told that he shouldn’t be there because of his colour even thiough he had payed for the ticket. Also when he saw the way that people were treated in South Africa he had his decition confermed. We have some quotes from Gandhi that show his beliefs. “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier then the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.” Another quote is “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only tempary; the evil it does is permenant.” One more quote is “Anger