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How Gandhi inspires me and what my nation the DRC can learn from the Gandhian movement

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The way Gandhi inspired me is justified by his way of seeing things and struggling with non-violence. Nonviolent resistance is a good resistance in the sense that it works and it makes the state feel guilty for all the injustices it can do directly or indirectly to the people. Gandhi is indeed a pioneer and theorist of resistance to oppression through mass civil disobedience, this theorization was based on nonviolence, which helped India to get independence. It has inspired many liberation and civil rights movements around the world. His critical analysis of Western modernity, of forms of authority and oppression (including the state), is a questioning of the development that influenced many theorists and political leaders [1] . What inspired me more about Gandhi was that he was willing to give his life to shine a light on injustice; he had principles which greatly increased his value on his personality, principles which even made him renounce his married life, all for the genera...