How Is Gandhi Mandela A Persuasive Person

Was Mandela a more persuasive person, or was Gandhi the more persuasive person in the battle for human rights. These can be found in “Eulogy for M. Gandhi” which is a eulogy and can be found in Mandela’s biography which is a biography. Well for one thing, both Mandela and Gandhi impacted thousands of people to take their side in the fight for human rights. To begin with, Gandhi was important for fasting as a protest against the cruel British rule in India. Mandela is famous for battling apartheid by in south Africa after he was imprisoned for 27 years! Mandela started boycotts and strikes to combat white domination in south Africa. Gandhi also started strikes and did a march to stop the British from being cruel rulers in Africa. Despite Gandhi’s attempt at helping human rights, Mandela ends up on top of his game and is more persuasive.

Gandhi was so influential that in 1930, he led 60,000 people on a 25 day salt march to protest the rule in India. Despite all of Gandhi's hard work and dedication to protest, his own generation that he was leading failed to continue what he had started. According to paragraph 2 of Gandhi’s Eulogy it says, “Yet, he must have suffered—suffered for the failing of this generation whom he had trained, suffered because we went away from the path that he had shown us.” According to this, Gandhi’s generation at the time was gently fading away from the path that Gandhi had set for them, and that the generation should’ve followed him because it would bite them in the back because after Gandhi died in 1948, there was no leader to continue his legacy. This is how Gandhi was a persuasive