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Mahatma Gandhi - 11.Version - Referat
In this speech, the message of Mahatma Gandhi is to encourage the people to protest without violence. He believes that a peaceful approach is best for achieving independence for India. He also says in the first line of the speech that he is ready to die “I am ready to die”. With this sentence, he announces that he will protest without any violent resistance and would even be ready to die for it. He is convinced that the non-violent protest is way more effective than a protest where violence is used which he shows with the passage: “We will not strike a blow, but we will receive them. And through our pain we will make them see their injustice”. As well he would break the law if that is necessary but only if it is not violently exercised this becomes clear at the beginning of the speech: “ Whatever they do to us, we will attack no one, kill no one, but we will not obey an unjust law-not one of us”, that quote also clarifies his attitude towards not hurting others physically, even if they are violent towards you.
The values are based on the mental characteristics of humans that means that Gandhi wants to convince his people to protest with their souls, not with their physical beings. This can also be combined with Gandhi's and many other Indian religions the Hinduism, which concentrates more on the mental aspects than the physical of humans. Gandhi has the thought that when the protesters show their negative feelings about this whole situation that their “enemies” feel and empathize with them, even if the last resort is that he even has to die for it. Gandhi got from his supporters the name Mahatma which translated means, great soul, this illustrates again that Gandhi was physically a weak Man but mentally extremely strong. As an example, he was imprisoned for about 8 years in his life but towards the end, he earned the freedom of his whole nation. He spent a part of his life as a lawyer in South Africa there he noticed a lot of racial segregation, for example, he was thrown from the train because non-europeans weren’t allowed to have a first-class ticket. It was there that Gandhi's peaceful protest began, which many people later followed upon.
A person who also followed Gandhi's form of non-violent protest is Martin Luther King jr. a dark-skin man who protested against racial segregation in the United States of Amerika. Martin Luther King jr. has become an equally important person like Mahatma Gandhi for the USA because his movement reached the desegregation. In 1955 at the Montgomery Bus Boycott where African American people refused to give their Bus seats to white passengers. Martin Luther King was considered the leader of the movement. In the next Years, he fought for equal rights with protests, boycotts, and his famous speeches which were always non-violent and peaceful, even when violence was used they didn’t fight back. Until coming to the well-known “I have a dream” speech in Washington with this he achieved his goal of equality against racial segregation and this without violence just like Gandhi.
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