Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbander, India. His father died a couple years later when he was about six and then got married at the age of thirteen because this was the custom. He went into law when he came of age at University College. After he got his degree in Law he went back to India but was not very successful in his practices there. A couple years later he was offered a job at a firm, which was focused on the interests of South Africa, in Durban, South Africa. Once he arrived in Durban he found out that he was treated as a member of an inferior race. He became very angry with the mistreatment of Indian to South Africa and started a campaign for political rights and and civil liberties of Indians to South Africa. This is when his awareness of the racial problems and the conversion of the same problems began.
Gandhi believed in a passive form of resistance. He unlike other people of the time believed violence was not the answer. Throughout his twenty year stay in South Africa he was imprisoned several times for his speaking out against South African injustices. He never used force though. He was beat up by white South Africans several times and still taught and practiced his passive resistance view. this view and the practice of it became known as Satyagraha. Satyagraha grew throughout India and soon Gandhi followers became numerous. His revolution soon spilled over into Great Britain. Great Britain did not take lightly to this passive resistance and passed the Rowlatt Acts. These gave Indian Colonial Authorities the right to act in emergencies as they see fit. This led to a Massacre of many Indians in Great Britain. This led to Gandhi's proclamation of the non-cooperation of Indians. This led to the resigning of many Indian officials, The boycott of many Indian agencies and the withdrawal of many children from British schools.
Like Moses, Gandhi took over a whole group of people and led them out of what was a type of slavery. Gandhi led the people out of Discrimination and he did so in the ways God would have wanted him too by doing it peacefully. Gandhi really put forth third of the seven pillars. The first is Life and dignity of a human person. This pillar states that a persons dignity should be protected and saved. He made sure that his people were kept equal and their dignity protected. The second pillar is the Rights and Responsibility. He believed as the pillar states that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if the rights and responsibilities of that community are met. He pushed for this to happen in place around the world. The third and final pillar is option for the poor and vulnerable. Gandhi traveled to places in his life where he saw his people being forced to live poor and were vulnerable because of it. He saw this as a huge problem and work to help these people.