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Gandhi se casó con su esposa, Kasturba, cuando tenía 13 años y juntos tuvieron cinco hijos.

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Su familia se quedó en la India mientras que Gandhi se fue a Londres en 1888 para estudiar derecho y a Sudáfrica en 1893 para practicarlo.

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Se convirtió en miembro del comité ejecutivo de la Sociedad Vegetariana de Londres, donde Gandhi conoció no solo a los amantes de la comida, sino también a algunos hombres y mujeres serios a quienes les debía su introducción a la Biblia y, más importante, al Bhagavadgita.

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Gandhi was quickly exposed to the racial discrimination practiced in South Africa. In a Durban court he was asked by the European magistrate to take off his turban; he refused and left the courtroom. A few days later, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at the rail station in Pietermaritzburg. In the further course of that journey, he was beaten up by the white driver of a stagecoach because he would not travel on the footboard to make room for a European passenger, and finally he was barred from hotels reserved “for Europeans only.”

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In March 1930 he launched the Salt March, a satyagraha against the British-imposed tax on salt, which affected the poorest section of the community. One of the most spectacular and successful campaigns in Gandhi’s nonviolent war against the British raj, it resulted in the imprisonment of more than 60,000 people. A year later, after talks with the viceroyLord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), Gandhi accepted a truce

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En septiembre de 1932, cuando aún estaba preso, se embarcó en un ayuno para protestar contra la decisión del gobierno británico de segregar a los llamados “intocables”.

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su protesta dejando de comer producio alegria emocional en todo el país

FRASES

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

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