Mahatma Gandhi was a spiritual and political leader who helped free India from British rule through nonviolent resistance. He developed a method of nonviolent civil disobedience called Satyagraha to secure rights for Indians in South Africa and lead the campaign for Indian independence. Gandhi believed that how people behave is more important than what they achieve, and that nonviolence was.

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