Mahatma Gandhi Rhetorical Analysis

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If people and groups are disregarded, that is usually an attempt to ridicule on groups statuses in social, economic and political life. As history shows over and over again, in societies where there is severe racial tension, just the refusal to acknowledge the existence of another group can seem vain. The dominant group will attempt to deprive the positive human qualities of the contending group, and if this doesn't achieve the wanted results, the powerful group goes to physical means, like, to fight the rival group, but if someone ignores, laughs, fights, and you win means that you took in different strategies altogether, different adopted tactics from the one who insults you. Gandhi said this during his nonviolent approach to challenging …show more content…

Dr. Martin Luther King vehemently believed that violence would not be the ultimate solution the racial tensions aimed towards the black community. He was aware of the fact that in order to challenge the social order, he needed to spend time generating many strategies for them to use. For the black movement to flip or change the social and political landscape of the US, the blacks needed to grasp the sympathy and the empathy of the whites. King was aware that turning to violence could help deepen the mistrust and hatred towards the black people, and that a compromise might possibly be more effective through dialogue, compassion and through leading to the hearts and minds of the American people and the …show more content…

Only the bold are able to resort to the fundamentals of basic non-violent ways as an object to challenge the existing status quo. This was a major trademark in Gandhi’s nonviolent movement and King’s peaceful civil rights movement. As you can see, that even though the British possessed an enormous military presence, and an economic powerhouse to trash any local resistance in India decisively and quickly, India was still able to obtain their independence . The same applied to MLK’s nonviolent civil movements throughout his life. As Gandhi’s programs made progress with the English policies in India, so did the African Americans with the United States policies towards its black population. King was able to draw support from around the world. Some of the strongest support came from African and Caribbean countries. Unsure of its public image, and international relations with foreign countries, the United States had to give in to the demands the civil right movement The same applies in India when the British became cautious about their image abroad, the who world concerned about how they would respond to the Gandhi Independence movement. Gandhi and King had both successfully used nonviolent tactics to achieve goals that otherwise would have been impossible to obtain by violent

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