Few men have ever had as much of an effect on our world as Mohandas Gandhi, though he used the message of peace and love, rather than war and destruction. One time a prominent lawyer in South Africa, Gandhi gave up practicing law and returned to India in order to help ease the suffering of the repressed people of his homeland. Gandhi's love for people and his religious passion made him a revolutionary in many …showed first 75 words of 1549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1549 total…such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, might not have been inspired to fight racism or imperialism non-violently. Gandhi was gone, a martyr, as he would have wished, to the cause of peace. In some sense, Gandhi's greatest achievement lay in his legacy. His ideas, and the example he provided in living them out, inspired and continue to inspire people of all nations to take up the peaceful struggle for freedom from oppression.