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Mohandas Gandhi will perhaps be remembered as the most influential humanitarian of the 20th century. His concept of satyagraha, or non-violent resistance to repression, not only influenced such leaders as Martin Luther King but also the ideologies behind the protests of the 1960s. Gandhi himself was an educated lawyer who first became involved with civil rights after immigrating to South Africa. He first used satygraha there as a means to organize protests against the treatment of Indians. He had only limited success there, and it was only after his return to India that his long-reaching impact began to be felt.

Acting against the colonial British, Gandhi began a campaign for an independent India that was to take decades, and which brought worldwide attention to the sub-continent. He was repeatedly arrested, and once sentenced to six years on charges of seditious conspiracy. One of his most famous arrests occurred when he protested the colonial salt tax. Gandhi le...

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