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"It was in South Africa that he witnessed first-hand the discrimination against his own people and in a few incidents; he was being discriminated as well.
This led him into politics as he fought for the rights of the Indians in South Africa. He would use his tactics of massive civil disobedience and in the end, he forced the South African General to come to a compromise with him. In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and he entered into politics and began speaking at the National Indian Congress. He would go on to assist poverty in the villages there and expressly spoke against certain British policies at discriminated against Indians. He would be arrested a few times in his life, but his first arrest caused a mass protest outside the jail that the judge had no choice but to let him go. Gandhi would employ non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance as his "weapons" in the struggle against the British. His most famous protest was called the Salt March. Against a British policy of taxing the use of salt for Indians, he would organize a 388 km march to the sea at Dandhi, Gujarat and make salt for himself. This campaign was extremely successful in upsetting the British and the government decided to negotiate with Gandhi." (http://www.leadership-with-you.com) |