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The Fight For Man's Rights : Fighting For Human Rights

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Fighting for human rights is one of the hardest and most important things one can fight for. Individuals like Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and Jesse Williams have fought or for human rights. Gandhi fought for Independence, Chavez fought for workers’ rights, and Williams fought for racial justice. These three individuals helped to enact change by protesting for independence, workers’ rights, and racial justice even through adversity, and bringing others to see the problems within society.
Mahatma Gandhi lead for independence, fought for the rights of Indians, and brought attention to the independence movement by taking a stand for what he believed in even through all the hate and discrimination. In one quote it says “He is faced with ridiculous discrimination for being an Indian immigrant in South Africa. He stands up for the equality he believes in and is beat up and humiliated” (Biography.com Editors). Gandhi led the independence movement even after all that he went through. Also in this quote it says “In 1906, Gandhi organized his first mass civil-disobedience campaign, which he called “Satyagraha”, in reaction to the South African Transvaal government’s new restrictions on the rights of Indians, including the refusal to recognize Hindu marriages” (Biography.com Editors). This is one of the ways Gandhi brought attention to how their human rights were being violated. Finally in this quote it says “ when a white man objected to his presence in the first-class railway

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