“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man/woman changes his/her own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him/her... We need not wait to see what others do.”
Mahatma Gandhi (real name Mohandas Karamchand) was born on October 2nd, 1869 as the fourth of four children in a family that belonged to the merchant caste (upper class) in Porbandar in West Gujarat / India.
After studying law in London, he went back to corrupt India to work as a lawyer, first in Bombay, then in his homeland of Gujarat.
Gandhi was the initiator of the nonviolent liberation of India from the colonial rule of the British Empire. He organized a movement that campaigned for the country's independence through non-violence, fearlessness and lack of interest in material. Among other things, he organized non-violent strikes against the colonial government and boycotts against imported goods.
After a campaign of violence got out of hand and Gandhi was imprisoned from 1922-1924, his next goal was independence from Britain.
The infinite number of counter-actions against the British (“salt march”, hunger strikes, etc.) finally led to India's independence on June 3, 1947.
Gandhi died in 1948 as a result of the assassination attempt by a nationalist, but one thing is clear: the world still celebrates the freedom fighter as a role model and national hero.
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