Gandhi non-violence resistance

"Be the change you want to see in the world." --Mohandas Gandhi

Gandhi employed non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance as his “weapons” in the struggle against the British. In 1908 Gandhi spoke to a crowd of 3.000. Together they protest against an unjust law without guns or rioting. Peaceful they made a difference. Gandhi words and deeds influenced countless other to work toward the goals of freedom and justice through peaceful methods. He believed passive resistance and civil disobedience were most appropriate in India. He urges Indians to boycott British institutions and products, to resign from public office, to withdraw their children from government schools, to refuse to pay taxes, and to forsake British titles and honours. In 1930 Gandhi proclams a new campaign of civil disaobedence and calls upon the Indian poulation to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign centres on a 400 km marchto the sea between 12 March and 6 April. Thousand follow Gandhi as he walks south from ashram outside Ahmedabad to Dandi. When they arrive they illegally make salt by evaporating seawater. “Let the government then, to carry on its rules, use guns against us, send us to prison, hang us,” Gandhi says during the march. ”But how many can be given  such punishment? Try and calculate how much time it will take of Britishers to hang 300 million of persons.”  Gandhi was the most inspirational leader of the first half of the 20 Century. His advocacy of civil disobedience and non-violent mass protest as the most effective way of achieving social change has instructed freedom movements around the world.