1. Mohandas Gandhi
1869-1948
“You must
be the
change you
wish to see
in the world”

2. -Married wife at age 13 through a traditional Indian
marriage
-Moved to London at age 18 to study law at University
College London

3. Gandhi’s Trip to South Africa

4. South Africa
• Accepted a contract position with Dada
Abdulla & Company in 1893
• Gandhi’s “First Crusade”

5. South Africa
Events that made Gandhi
• Beaten on stagecoach
• Thrown off a train
• Ordered to remove his turban in court
THESE EVENTS TRANSFORMED GANDHI
INTO A SOCIAL ACTIVIST

6. 1906
First
Satyagraha
Satyagraha-
A determined but non-violent
resistance to evil

7. Gandhi on Satyagraha
“I have also called it love-force or soul-force. In the application of
satyagraha, I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did
not admit of violence being inflicted on one’s opponent but that he
must be weaned from error by patience and compassion. For what
appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And
patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean
vindication of truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent, but
on oneself.”

8. Gandhi’s move back to India
• Moved back to India in 1915
• Started movement to free India from
British rule
• Led the Non-Cooperation movement

9. Non-Cooperation Movement
• Asked followers to not purchase any
British goods
• Impacted British financially
“I wanted to acquaint India with the method I had tried in South Africa and I desired to
test in India the extent to which its applications might be possible. So my companions
and I selected the name Satyragraha Ashram as conveying both our goal and our method
of service.”

10. Dandi March
• Led the Dandi march in which Gandhi walked
240 miles in 24 days
• Marched to make his own salt, free of British
tax
• Millions followed Gandhi to produce illegal
salt
• Many arrested for illegal salt production
• Followers sung the song below on march
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEyvAZOvADw

11. Inspired by Gandhi’s actions
Here what he had to say

12. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had
never studied him seriously. As I read I became
deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent
resistance. I was particularly moved by his Salt
March to the Sea and his numerous fasts. The
whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which
equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha,
therefore, means truth force or love force) was
profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper
into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism
concerning the power of love gradually
diminished, and I came to see for the first time its
potency in the area of social reform.”

13. Acting up for Social Change
Tony Grabowski
Fall 2010 DePaul SNL