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'''Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi''' (1869-1948) also known by the honorific title ''Mahatma Gandhi,'' was a great leader who obtained [[India]]'s independence from [[Britain]].  

'''Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi''' (1869-1948) also known by the honorific title ''Mahatma Gandhi,'' was a great leader who obtained [[India]]'s independence from [[Britain]].  

:It was his [[philosophy]] of ''Satyagraha'' or nonviolent non-compliance (being willing to suffer so that the opponent can realize the error of their ways)—which led India to independence, and has influenced social reformers around the world, including [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American civil rights movement]], [[Steve Biko]] and the freedom struggles in [[South Africa]], and [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] in [[Myanmar]]. [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mahatma_Gandhi NWE]

:It was his [[philosophy]] of ''Satyagraha'' or nonviolent non-compliance (being willing to suffer so that the opponent can realize the error of their ways)—which led India to independence, and has influenced social reformers around the world, including [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and the [[Civil Rights Movement|American civil rights movement]], [[Steve Biko]] and other activists in anti-[[apartheid]] struggle in [[South Africa]], and [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] in [[Myanmar]]. [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mahatma_Gandhi NWE]

As a Indian lawyer on a one-year assignment in British [[South Africa]], Gandhi experienced racism first-hand.

As a Indian lawyer on a one-year assignment in British [[South Africa]], Gandhi experienced racism first-hand.