16 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes That Will Make You Want To Change The World
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, in 1869.
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He was assassinated in 1948.
Though in school he was rated as only "good at English, fair in Arithmetic and weak in Geography," he would go on to become a lawyer and spend twenty years in South Africa before returning to a still-colonial India.
There he led the Indian independence movement, which culminated to the Indian Independence Act of 1947.
His philosophy of satyagraha - or mass nonviolent protest - would become a tool of oppressed people around the world, inspiring the likes of Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For this we call him Mahatma, or great soul.
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