MOHANDAS GANDHI

Marta Garcia

Paula Martínez.

BIOGRAFY

• He was born on October 2, 1869• He lived in India, Porbandar• He was a pacifist, humanist and

independence Hindu leader.• He died in 1948 (at the age of 78) in Nova

Delhi (India), for a gunfire.

Why is he a hero?• 1. FOR HIS BRAVERY• 2. FOR HIS GREAT MORAL ENTIRETY• 3. FOR HIS DECISION TO HELP THE WEAKEST• 4. HE WAS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN HIS ADVERSARIES• 5. FOR HIS PITY • 6. FOR HIS LOYALTY• 7. FOR HIS LOVE TO A REASON• 8. FOR HIS SACRIFICE• 9. FOR HIS FORCE• 10. FOR HIS HONESTY• 11. FOR HIS HUMILITY• 12. FOR HIS VICTORIES

• Principally for defending the rights of the Indians and the independence from the United Kingdom.

• His fight for the Civil laws in South Africa: during the War Bóer, Gandhi organized a body of ambulances for the British army and directed a section of the Red Cross.

Others

• Gandhi never managed to receive the Nobel Prize on the Peace, though it was nominated five times between 1937 and 1948.

Gandhi’s ideas

• " For the freedom of my people I am ready to give with pleasure my life, but for nothing, am ready to take the life from other one ".

• " There is no way for the peace, the peace is the way. “

• “They say that I am a hero, weak, shy, almost insignificant I, if being since I am I did what I did, imagine what they all can do you united.”

• " Everything what you do in the life will be insignificant, but it is very

important that you do because nobody any more will do it. "