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Gandhi Vs Mandela

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Henry D Thoreau, K Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were great persons who help their countries. There were amazing by their acts. Henry David Thoreau, was arrested because he did not wanted to pay a poll tax. Thoreau argues for the limited of the power of the government. He was on the U.S war with Mexico (civil disobedience). Thoreau opposed Manifest Destiny in 1840 Mexican American war. K. Gandhi was different from Henry Thoreau because he do a protest. In 1930 Gandhi protest the salt monopoly , he did not wanted violence he was just resistance to injustice. Gandhi was arrested several times , to be exacted it was thirteen times he believe in a peace protest. Nelson Mandela, was also in prision, he was on of the president of South Africa, was one

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