Gandhi, King and Mandela: What Made Non-Violence Work?

All through with(predicate) history governments and empires turn out been overthrown or defeated primarily by the violence of those who riposteact them. This violence was usu all toldy successful however, thither have been several layuations, when violence failed, that avouchers have had to turn to other methods. Non-violent protesting never seemed to be the right course of action until the ideology of Mohandas Gandhi spread and influenced successful protests across the world. Non-violent methods were successfully apply, most nonably, by Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther baron, Jr., and Nelson Mandela.Mohandas Gandhis methods non only led to Indias independence from Britain but also had victories over racial discrimination in South Africa. Gandhi saw, upon his reproduction to India from South Africa, that Britain had run Indias state into poverty and subordination. Indians were not allowed to manufacture or own their own salt. This affected the unworthy world most beca hold of how often they used salt. Gandhi began by writing to the English governor in India describing his plan to convert the British people through nonviolence and to falsify them see the wrong they have make to India (Document 1).He felt up that the British principle was a curse. Even though Gandhi spent a total of 2.338 years in prison, he did not sense of smell the slightest hesitation in entering the captives box (Doc. 7). People followed Gandhi in his protests and many followed him into toss away feeling mansion in their resolution of passing their hurt in remit in sodding(a) happiness and peace (Doc. 7). While he was in jail, Mme. N forethoughtu, an Indian poetess, filled in his position in leading protests. She advance the protesters by reiterating that they must not use any violence they would be shell but they must not hold upnot even raise a hand to ward off blows (Doc. 4). The root felt that the western mind finds it unmanageable to grasp the cerebrati on of nonresistance, but this was not the case.Just 25 years later on Martin Luther world-beater, Jr. found his own winsome of victory using Gandhis techniques. poof began his career of peaceful protests as a follower, not a leader. In 1960, he toke part in the lunch counter sit-ins in order to bring the only issue of racial injustice beneath the scrutiny of the conscience of Atlanta (Doc 2). King hoped to help not just the African-American population but the white population as well. By 1963, King had been chosen as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which sought to aid in the efforts to put an end to segregation. He accepted volunteers to serve in their non-violent phalanx knowing that they would have to accept and play violence without retaliating (Doc. 5).Their will to fight was from the judgment of conviction that they were right. Kings followers were so empowered that, for their participation in the Montgomery bus boycott, people had speed down to get arrested they were now chivalrous to be arrested for the cause of granting immunity (Doc. 8). King got white and blacks to work together for the butt on Washington for Jobs and exemption (Doc. 11). He wanted them to b able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.Nelson Mandela used the alike Gandhian principles of nonviolencethat explores to conquer through conversion (Doc. 3). He lived under the severe laws of apartheid that separated the white Dutchmen from the native African population. In similar circumstances as M.L. King, Mandela supported the same acts of nonviolence in order to gain rights for South Africans. He knew that attempts at violencewould be devastatingly low under the power of the state. At his protests in Johannesburg in 1952, he knew that the authorities would seek to intimidate, imprison, and perhaps attack them (Doc. 6) however, like Gandhi, he encouraged the volunteers not to retaliate.Mandela spent 26 years and 8 months in jail as punishmen t for his protesting however, he felt that no sacrifice was too considerable in the struggle for independence (Doc. 9). He spent time in jail with other protesters that all felt that whatever sentences they received, even the death sentence their deaths would not be in vain (Doc. 9). Freedom for the South African people from apartheid eventually came in 1993. To Mandela this was not just the freedom of his people but the freedom of all people, black and white (Doc. 12). South Africas New Democracy rose later years of continuous nonviolence from the populace.Gandhi, King, and Mandela all(prenominal) fought for their causes with a method that was very rarely used but even slight rarely successful. Their efforts at peaceful protest without retaliation to attacks were successful in overthrowing trans-continental territorial dominion and ending segregation of races. Gandhi transformed the idea of non-violence into a way to fight for freedom and justice which would ultimately end in success and peace.