If you could travel back in time to meet a famous person from history,#3
what person would you like to meet? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice
If I ever had the fortune to travel back in time and meet one famous person from history, it would undoubtedly be Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi selflessly fought for the freedom of his people and strove to lift his country from the dangers of colonisation. To achieve his end, he did not take up arms but introduced a new method of resistance: non-violence. Though his new methods were widely criticised as being ineffective, he was persuaded of the rightness of his principles and held steadfastedly to his beliefs. History proved him right. He must have required great courage and will power to hold on to his beliefs in the face of criticism and protests. In the modern world, it is difficult to find a leader who is as selfless and courageous as he was.
He was the first leader to raise the problem of untouchability in India and fought to eradicate it. Though his efforts did not meet with total success, he paved the way for the emancipation of the lower sections of the society which was able to break the taboos in the society and take part in the nation-building activities like never before.
Gandhi’s ideas and principles influenced other leaders in other countries: Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King used his non-violent methods to seek an end to apartheid and slavery respectively. The influence Gandhi had on the world was best illustrated when Time magazine elected him as one of the Three Persons of the Century after numerous polls conducted in several countries around the world.
More than ever before, modern world - wherein leaders are motivated more by the power and control that leadership entails than by a real desire to serve their people -needs a selfless, compassionate and tolerant leader like Gandhi, who influenced his contemporaries and will continue to influence the world in the future.
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