Similarities Between Martin Luther King And Mahatma Gandhi
CSE 101
Henri Nomani
Prof. Reyes
Essay #2
A comparison, contrast between Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. The human civilization has seen many changes throughout all the periods of time that have passed by and many brilliant minds have enlightened the path towards the process of our social development. The twentieth century marks one of the most important centuries in human history as it saw two devastating world wars, a major shift in the way many people lived, changes in politics, ideology, economics, society, culture, science, technology, and medicine. Focusing on the socio-political development, this century hosted some of the most innovative experiments of non-violent action. Two of the most important leaders of civil rights movements that used non-violence as their weapon …show more content…
Gandhi was only an ordinary boy both in the Primary School and in the High School. No special qualities were seen in him. At school he never took part in any games. He would not even freely mix with his companions. The fear that somebody would make fun of him always filled his mind. Martin on the other hand showed academic strength, in High School and allowing him to skip both the ninth and eleventh grades, and enter the Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15, in 1944 and on June 5, 1955, he received his Ph.D. in theology at Boston University.
A similarity can be found in the number of children they conceived during their marriages. In that era couples would give birth to many children. Both Gandhi and King were parents of four. However, coming from different cultures their marriage traditions changed drastically. Gandhi, married his wife, Kasturba Makanji, a merchant’s daughter, in an arranged marriage at the age of 13. King on the other hand could not marry the woman he loved at first, the daughter of a German immigrant. However, he had the choice to marry another woman, Coretta Scott in a marriage by
Henri Nomani
Prof. Reyes
Essay #2
A comparison, contrast between Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. The human civilization has seen many changes throughout all the periods of time that have passed by and many brilliant minds have enlightened the path towards the process of our social development. The twentieth century marks one of the most important centuries in human history as it saw two devastating world wars, a major shift in the way many people lived, changes in politics, ideology, economics, society, culture, science, technology, and medicine. Focusing on the socio-political development, this century hosted some of the most innovative experiments of non-violent action. Two of the most important leaders of civil rights movements that used non-violence as their weapon …show more content…
Gandhi was only an ordinary boy both in the Primary School and in the High School. No special qualities were seen in him. At school he never took part in any games. He would not even freely mix with his companions. The fear that somebody would make fun of him always filled his mind. Martin on the other hand showed academic strength, in High School and allowing him to skip both the ninth and eleventh grades, and enter the Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15, in 1944 and on June 5, 1955, he received his Ph.D. in theology at Boston University.
A similarity can be found in the number of children they conceived during their marriages. In that era couples would give birth to many children. Both Gandhi and King were parents of four. However, coming from different cultures their marriage traditions changed drastically. Gandhi, married his wife, Kasturba Makanji, a merchant’s daughter, in an arranged marriage at the age of 13. King on the other hand could not marry the woman he loved at first, the daughter of a German immigrant. However, he had the choice to marry another woman, Coretta Scott in a marriage by