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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born October-second, eighteen-sixty-nine, in Porbandar India. What's the best way to describe Gandhi? Perhaps, strong, loving selfless, genuine, courageous, self-sufficient, frugal and intelligent come to mind. All these words belong ....

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.... and inequity in South Africa and India and they welcomed personal suffering to do so. Civil disobedience, however, would not be effective without the moral power of, and commitment to, Satyagraha. Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha was a way of living during a time of oppression, exploitation, and discrimination. It was a tactic used to appeal to people morally, rather than intimidate them violently. It literally means, "clinging to truth" (Gandhi, 1951) and in this case, "Truth symbolizes God and therefore the true Satyagrahi is, accordingly, a man of God" (Gandhi, 1951). If Truth is God, then to cling to Truth would be to cling to God, o ....