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Gandhi the Great

He was shot three times in the chest because he stood up for what he believed in. Because he was responsible for freeing India from British-rule, he was the most loved man in his country. He was only 78 when he was shot, but Gandhi made those years well spent. Gandhi was a man of peace and fairness, he spoke the truth and was very successful in almost everything he engaged in. He fought for equal rights even when others fought back. Mohandas Gandhi overcame the world by freeing India and Africa from oppression, declaring the truth of racial discrimination in Africa, and inspiring others to take a stand against racial inequality.

One of Gandhi's greatest achievements was freeing India and Africa from oppression. He took a case in South Africa and only planned to stay there for a little while but ended up staying for twenty one years (World Book). He stayed there for so long is because he was fighting for Indians' rights (Yapp). Gandhi first noticed that there were equality issues in South Africa when he got on a train with a first class bus ticket. This train was supposed to go from Durbin to Pretoria. The train did not have enough seats in first class for everyone, so a worker told him he had to go to the back so a white man could have his seat. When Gandhi refused, the police were called and he was removed from the train and forced to spend the night in the bitterly cold train station (Schuldt). From that day on Gandhi was set on trying to bring together Indians

and the white people. As mentioned before, he spent twenty-one years there but he never did

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officially make equality a law. Although there was still some racial discrimination there Gandhi gained a lot of experience from this movement (...

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...ry next day and the country was both in shock and very depressed. The whole world was mourning when the press released the news. Gandhi was shot on January fourteenth 1948. Godse was hung in 1949 for his murder. It is very important to remember Gandhi. He was so special because he was peaceful, yet effective. This is proof that nonviolence can cause anything that violence can. This

is the way that Gandhi overcame the world, with peace and satyagraha.

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Works Cited

Yapp, Malcom, Gandhi, St. Paul, MN.:Greenhaven Press, 1980. Print

“The Condensation of Mathatma Gandhi” Readers Digest, Great Biographies. 1989. Print

Schuldt, Lori, Biographical Connections; Martin Luther King Jr. with profiles of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, Chicago, IL.: World Book Inc., 2007. Print.

“Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand.” World Book, 2014. Web. 21, March. 2014 Web.

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