The Influence Of Thoreau On Gandhi And Martin Luther King Jr.

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companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.� Thoreau always did march to a different drummer. �The Con-cord community, already scandalized by Thoreau�s unconven-tional way of life, ridiculed his lack of ambition and material success. However, Thoreau flourished with Emerson as his mentor. He kept an extensive journal and became an avid reader of Hindu scripture.� (Twentieth p346) Gandhi would later say that he �received back from America what was fundamentally the philosophy of India after it had been distilled and crystallized in the mind of Thoreau.� (Miller 238-239)
Mahatma Gandhi, also know simply as Gandhi, was born in what is now Gujar�t in 1869. He was educated at the University College in London in the field of law. After joining the British Bar Association, Gandhi again returned to India and tried to start a law practice in Bombay, but with little success. Gandhi ended up in South ...

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marriages and the elimination of the poll tax for them. Gandhi saw his work in South Africa as finished, so he returned to his native India.
It was 1930, and Gandhi had become a leader in a complex struggle for Indian home rule. Gandhi, again advocating Satyagraha, launched his famous movement of passive resistance to free India from British rule. A demonstration resulted in the massacre of Indians by British troops at Amristar; when the Government refused to admit their wrong doing, Gandhi organized a campaign of noncooperation. Indians in office resigned, government agencies were boycotted, and children were taken out of school. Throughout India the roads were blocked by Indians who ...

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