Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939) was an English writer and social reformer whose work brought praise from the likes of Mahatma Gandhi. ... " Salt wrote in the pamphlet that, "a Vegetarian is still regarded, in ordinary society, as little better than a madman." Though well-educated and destined for a lucrative career, Henry Salt choose to live a modest and very frugal life of a reform writer. ... Gandhi met Henry Salt and read Salt's A Plea for Vegetarianism (1880). Gandhi himself acknowledged the intellectual debt to Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," and Henry Salt in ...

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In MY reading I discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and I was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. ... In 1930, in protest of a salt tax, I led thousands of Indians on a 200-mile (320-kilometer) march to the sea to make their own salt. ...

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However, there are those who o not follows society's mold and struggle against everything for what they believe in. .Men like Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi have led the way for to show everyone how to express there opinions in a non-violent manner to express their misgivings of society in hopes for change. ... He had protestors try to enter a salt factory where they were al attacked until they could no longer walk to try to enter. ...

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