Compare And Contrast Gandhi And Mandela In Civil Disobedience

To bring about reform, Gandhi, Thoreau and Mandela swayed audiences to share their views, to share their beliefs, gain their support, or rally them to take action. Each of this leaders used controlled passive aggressive to convey their message with clarity and force. Henry David Thoreau chose to live apart from the government. He once said, "That government is best which governs least." This means that a government that has little power over its people is the best type of government. Thoreau was against slavery and fought against the Mexican American War. In 1846, the United States declared war to Mexico. However, Thoreau viewed this as a plot to expand slavery into the Southwest. The U.S. used taxes to support the war. Thoreau deicide to stop paying taxes in protest against the war. In July 1846, Thoreau was arrested and spent a night in jail. This prompted Thoreau to write his famous essay,"Civil Disobedience". Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the Indian Independence Movement against the British rule. In March 12, 1930, Gandhi led a nonviolent march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt. This was later known to the world. This marc led to the arrest of more than 60,000 people including Gandhi. This didn't stop people from defying the law in nonviolent ways.

A representation of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela was a political miracle and a prisoner. Mandela devoted his life to politics and later became a leader of the African National Congress in 1944. Mandela chose to speak out against apartheid, injunction against dark skinned South Africans. He helped lead the ANC's 1952 campaign for the Defiance of unjust laws. They adopted through boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience and other nonviolent methods. One of Mandela's famous words were," A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of