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 general interest of the population. As Albert Einstein put it, "future generations will hardly believe that such a man ever existed in flesh and blood on this earth"; and according to General Georges Marshal, Secretary of the United States of America at that time, “Mahatma Gandhi has become the spokesperson for the conscience of humanity; he was a man who had made humility and simple truth more powerful than empire".
What my country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, can learn from the Gandhian movement is that nonviolent resistance is the best resistance and that it should be our one and only way to claim our rights and that discrimination and injustice must be banned in our society so that peace reigns forever. The thing that divides the world today is segregation and if we can overcome this segregation, nothing can frighten us to transform our world to make it better.


« Be the change that you want to see in the world » _ Mahatma Gandhi

« The future depends on what you do today » _ Mahatma Gandhi




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