Mahatma Gahndi
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Few men have ever had as much of an effect on our world as Mahatma Gandhi, though he used the message of peace and love, rather than war and destruction. One time a prominent lawyer in South Africa, Gandhi gave up practicing law and returned to India in order to help ease the suffering of the repressed people of his homeland. Gandhi's love for people and his religious passion made him a revolutionary in many of his ideas and actions. He desired to see India freed from British rule in a bloodless revolution. Over the course of his life he led three major crusades, rallied support for nonviolent strikes, urged Indians to boycott anything British, and championed women's rights. Gandhi exemplified many characteristics of a great leader. His love for the people of India was boundless; he wanted nothing more than to serve and help them. Always putting others above himself, he sought to make himself even lower than the lowest member of the Hindu class system, a system in which people where categorized, Bhramin (Education) class, Vashya (Business) class, Shatrya (Soliders) class, and Shurad (servants) class.
Leading only by example, Gandhi never preached that which he was not willing to do himself. Gandhi's philosophies which he promoted were related to simple items in life...