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Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi, one of the most admired and influential leaders used his belief in nonviolent civil disobedience to lead his people in an effort towards achieving independence for India. India had long been a British colony but many of the Indian people believed in the idea of self determination and self government. Using the power of his skills as an orator and his belief in the power of nonviolence, Gandhi was able to lead his nation in a struggle against one of the most powerful European countries.
Gandhi had self determination on the values of brahamacharya. "I vow to flee from the serpent which I know will bite me, I do not simply make an effort to flee him. I know that mere effort may mean certain death. Mere effort means ignorance of the certain fact that the serpent is bound to kill me."(Pg 207 Gandhi, Mahatma. Gandhi An Autobiography The Story Of my Experiments With Truth. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press books of the Unitarian Universalist Association of......

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