Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948 · India · Peace, Philosophy, Literature
Turned nonviolent resistance into a working political technology.
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Who shaped Mahatma Gandhi, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Leo Tolstoy
1828 – 1910 · Literature, Philosophy
Their correspondence and The Kingdom of God Is Within You shaped satyagraha.
Passed the work to3
- Aung San Suu Kyi
1945 · Peace
Her 1988–2010 strategy of nonviolent resistance is explicitly Gandhian.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968 · Peace, Philosophy
King's Montgomery method is Gandhian nonviolence adapted to American segregation.
- Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013 · Peace, Philosophy
Gandhi's South African campaigns are the direct precedent for the ANC's early defiance.
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