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What Does Gandhi Mean In The Declaration Of Freedom

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I say people you say power! People! Power! People! Power! People! Power! All over the world there is ongoing civil disobedience, protests, and riots. Since the very beginning have been fighting for rights and freedom. The works of Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr, and Mohandas Gandhi teach that civil disobedience is standing up to Unjust laws, Believing everyone is equal and doing what it takes to get equality, and not letting the government make the people suffer.
In "The declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson writes of Believing all men are equal and doing whatever it takes to get equality. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equally, that they are all endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." It should be obvious that all men and women are created equally and given rights by God that can't be taken or denied. People in this world fight for reasons unknown. They fight for rights that they should already have. "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, its is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government." When the government is not doing what it should be doing people have the right to change …show more content…

Gandhi and his followers always stood up to the government and never obeyed them but did disobey them. When Gandhi uses the word disobey, he wants everyone to not follow the government's ways no matter what so that therecan be a change. "One way is to smash the head of the man who perpetrates injustice and to get your own head smashed in the process." Mohandas made it clear to the government that he and his people would do whatever it takes to make a change. Gandhi would never bow down to any sort of outrageous law. He would rather spend his life in prison than living where he suffers. Mohandas Gandhi talked the talk but also walked the

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