Gandhi His Influence in the Nonviolent Movement
Gandhi - His Influence in the Nonviolent MovementI think Mohandas Gandhi was one of the most significant persons in the 20th century. He was the one who
proved that it is possible to fight very successful without violence. He fought his whole life with humanity,
tolerance, ideas and without violence. He showed the way to a better world. And still today there are many
people who love him and who use his philosophy to change the world. A very important example is the fight
against wars. Usually people who fight against a war try to fight without violence. They march through cities and
try to convince people not to go to the war or something like that.
Another very popular example is the fight against nuclear energy or nuclear weapons. Demonstrators sit on the
road in front of a nuclear power station or block the way of trucks or trains, which carry nuclear waste. Or, very
popular example, the French tests of nuclear weapons in the pacific. People opposed them and the press all over
the world was talking about these tests. That was non-violent resistance. Marches all over the world and other
non-violent actions. And another good example is “Greenpeace”. They fight for the nature and their most
important weapon is the public. They don’t use violence but they use the press. The actions, they do are very
spectacular and interesting for the whole world. Many people all over the world agree with what they are doing.
An example for not using violence even if others use it against them was when they went very close to where the
French wanted to test their nuclear weapons and the French soldiers entered their boat and destroyed lots of
things and hit the Greenpeace activists. And all that was filmed by Greenpeace and these pictures were sent all
over the world and came in the news everywhere. Also Martin Luther King didn’t use violence in his fight for the
rights of the black people in America.
An example, which all of us see and experience from time to time is the strike. Gandhi made the strike as a way
of fighting popular and it is still used today very often. At the start of the 20th century the British Empire was...
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