Essay on Mahatma Gandhi

If you wanted a name for popular anti war activist then i got just the guy. Mahatma Gandhi was an indian anti war activist back in the late 1800's and 1900's. Gandhi is a hero to the people in India and also south africa. Yes he his indian but he also stood for civil rights in south africa also. What made Gandhi so known and viewed as a hero though? Let me explain.

Mahatma Gandhi was born in porbandar, India and was born to a poor family. But out of everyone in his family Gandhi was the most educated. His mother was illiterate and and his father was a chief minister. Gandhi got married and a young age and left home to study law at a temple. Gandhi made a vow to his mom that we would finish school and become a english barrister and he did just that.

Now lets get to the inspiring part. Gandhi was only 24 years old when he first arrived at south africa. He worked as an legal representative for a muslim indian trader base. There he spend over the next 21 years of his life. In South Africa, Gandhi faced the discrimination directed at people of his kind. One day He was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg after refusing to move from the first-class. He protested and was allowed on first class the day. On another similar occasion , he was beaten by a driver for refusing to move to make room for a European passenger. The incident that stands out to me is when a Durban court ordered Gandhi to remove his turban, which he refused to do. This inspires me because it's educating me that me being a black person are not the only race that faced racial hardships in life. Other races have too and not everyone in the world realizes. The struggles gandhi face were hard but in the end made him a better person.

After south africa gandhi returned to india in 1915 to gain india independence. Gandhi's goal was to help poor farmers and laborer protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. One of Gandhi's most famous moments is when the British introduced a tax on salt in 1930. Gandhi being the man he is led a 250-mile march to the sea to collect his own salt. That right there stood up to me because gandhi was not going to back down and fight for his rights no matter what.

In 1947 the indians would gain independence and gandhi's mission was complete. Gandhi's would face assassination attempts throughout his life and on january 30th he died and took 3 bullets to the chest. Gandhi's legacy will always live on and that's why he is so inspiring to me. I get inspired by the dead that left a message. That means that they died for the wrong causes and it just some of us human beings who couldn't handle the message that gandhi was leaving us with. All in all he is a hero to all races across the globe.