ange. When Mao witnessed the horrible treatment that the peasants were experiencing, he started organizing riots and marches to help them. Mao, like Gandhi, was determined to create better conditions for the peasants.
             Gandhi and Mao were two men ready to lead the fight to victory for their countries. As teenagers, they were both influenced by the harsh conditions that the peasants were going through. At age nineteen, Gandhi seized the opportunity to travel outside of India and study law in Britain. After passing the bar, Gandhi traveled to South Africa to fight a civil suit. However, after discovering that the treatment of Indians by Europeans was far worse in South Africa than in England or India, he stayed to fight for Indian rights.5 In South Africa, Gandhi was "forced to remove his turban in court, forcibly removed from first class railway-compartments, refused accommodation at hotels, violently pushed and kicked by watchmen."6 Gandhi, after witnessing the racism in England, India and South Africa, dedicated his life to not only f
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