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Article: The power of the people: some defining strategies in the rich history of nonviolent action--and the people behind them.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number--
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you--
You are many--they are few.
WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi and the people of India. (1) India--1930. Fewer than 100,000 British troops control 350 million Indians. Mohandas Gandhi identifies that the British 'have not taken India from us--we have given it to them'. At the beginning of what would be a 17-year campaign of non-cooperation to oust British colonial rule from India, the 60-year-old undertakes a 384-kilometre walk to the beach to gather salt--illegal under British law. After 24 ...