"The spirit of truth is everywhere and everywhere. But if you want to face it, you must love the lowest as you love yourself."
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There was such a man, he The stature is not tall, but his thoughts shocked the world; there is such a person, his arms may be thin, but he supports the will of countless people; there is such a person, his life is not vigorous, but achieved greater achievement than dynamism; there is such a man, he is Gandhi.
Gandhi (1869.10.2—1948.1.30), known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement and the Congress Party. He is both the founding father of India and India's greatest political leader. He developed the idea of non-violent non-cooperative action at an early age, leading the fight against legal and racial discrimination against South African Indians in South Africa, and upon his return to India, he led the country towards independence from British colonial rule. His "nonviolent disobedience," as he called it, "nonvlolentprotest," has influenced nationalists and international movements for peaceful change around the world.
On October 2, 1869, Gandhi was born in a Hindu family in the port city of Bourbandar in western India (then a native state in India, now under the jurisdiction of Gujarat), and his whole family were devout followers of Hinduism. . His father, Karangchand Gandhi, also known as Kabbah Gandhi, was the prime minister of the state at the time, and his mother was his father's fourth wife. At the age of thirteen, Gandhi married Gasthub, who was the same age as him. In 1888, when he was nineteen, Gandhi studied in England to study law at University College London. After returning to China, he was qualified as a lawyer in the British Empire. He tried to work as a lawyer in Mumbai. But the work didn't get any better, and Gandhi was also miserable because he often saw innocent tenant farmers being oppressed at work. In April 1893, a Miman bank in Pol Banda wrote to his brother, proposing to let Gandhi go to South Africa to help them in their lawsuits. Journey to South Africa. It was South Africa's experience that made Gandhi realize the discrimination between people and made him determined to fight against this inequality for the rest of his life.
After arriving in South Africa, Gandhi immediately felt that the people of South Africa had a kind of impolite discrimination against Indians, which made him feel unspeakably uncomfortable. When his colleague took him to the court, the president of the court asked him to take off his hijab. He immediately refused out of religious habit and left the scene. Later, my colleague explained to him why the Indians were allowed to take off their headscarves. The colleagues said that Indians are divided into several factions in South Africa. Those wearing Islamic clothing can wear the headscarves in court, but other Indians have to take off as usual. scarf. Gandhi believed that wearing the hijab was such an important issue that if an Indian was forced to take it off, it would be tantamount to enduring a shame. So he wrote a letter to the newspapers talking about it, justifying his own wearing of the hijab in court. The issue caused a lot of controversy in the newspapers, and he was described as an "undesirable visitor". Some people supported him, while others severely criticized his presumptuousness. In fact, he has been wearing a hijab for almost all his travels in Africa since then.
Shortly after the hijab incident, Gandhi was sent to another city as a lawyer's representative, and the staff gave Gandhi a first-class ticket. After getting on the train, everything was normal. At about nine o'clock in the evening, a flight attendant came to ask Gandhi if he needed to change into a sleeper. Gandhi said, "No, I have a bed myself." The flight attendant left. However, there was no one passenger, and he looked at Gandhi from head to toe. He saw that Gandhi was a "colored person" and left with a displeased face. To Gandhi, they didn't say anything, and then another official said to Gandhi, "Me, you have to go to another carriage."
"But I have a first-class ticket." Gandhi defended .
"That doesn't count," retorted the other. "I tell you, you have to go to another car."
"I tell you, they gave me permission to ride in this car in Durban, and I have to do it for my purpose. The ground."
"No," said the officer, "you have to get out of this carriage, or I'll have to ask the police to push you out."
"Okay, go ahead, I can't go out automatically."
As expected, the policeman was over. He took Gandhi's hand and pushed him out. His luggage was also thrown out. He refused to sit in another carriage, and the train left. He sat in the waiting room with his bag in his hand, and the rest of the luggage was kept at a distance by the railway authorities.
His heart was very heavy at the time. He began to think of his duty, "Should I fight for my rights, or just go back to India? The pain I'm suffering now is superficial, just a serious ailment of racism. If possible. , I want to try to eradicate this disease, even if I suffer some pain because of it, the theology I seek is nothing more than the elimination of racial prejudice."
So he did what he wanted, and devoted himself to the civil rights movement to eliminate racial discrimination against Indians in the future. He protested and lobbied in the form of non-violent movements according to the deep meaning of Hindu teachings and philosophy. During this period, he suffered a lot, and the process was very tortuous, but as he said, "if the heart changes, the attitude will change; if the attitude changes, the habit will change, and the habit will change, and the life will change." He upholds a heart to fight for equality of rights and has achieved certain results in the struggle in South Africa. In 1914, the government promised to reduce discrimination against Indians in South Africa.
His years in South Africa were Gandhi's formative years as a socio-political activist. This is when the concepts and techniques of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance began to take shape.
It seems to be a habit. When you talk about India, you will think of the non-violent non-cooperation movement, and you will think of Gandhi. He always seems to appear like that, dressed in white, bald, wearing a pair of round glasses, his eyes are bright and bright, and the smile on his face is kind and tolerant. Such a peaceful image has so much power in his heart, to fight, to protest, and to lead the people to fight for rights and independence. It is precisely from the discrimination suffered in South Africa that these civil rights movements in South Africa have laid a solid foundation for the peaceful, tolerant and powerful "Mahatma" Gandhi in the struggle in India.
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