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Quit India Speech by Mahatma Gandhi

Quit India Speech by Mahatma Gandhi. Forrest Dunn. Speaker. The speaker was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi lead the Swaraj movement in India. He was an established pacifist, using non-violence as a way to persuade change in nations.

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Quit India Speech by Mahatma Gandhi

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  1. Quit India Speech by Mahatma Gandhi Forrest Dunn

  2. Speaker • The speaker was Mahatma Gandhi. • Gandhi lead the Swaraj movement in India. • He was an established pacifist, using non-violence as a way to persuade change in nations. • He fought apartheid in South Africa before moving back to India.

  3. Occasion • The speech was given on the eve of the Quit India Movement on August 8th, 1942. • The Quit India Movement was a large scale civil disobedience campaign trying to get England to free India.

  4. Audience • The audience was an assortment of empathizers and followers. • His speech was also written towards the Indian Congress and the Indian people who were giving up on the ahimsa method.

  5. Purpose • The purpose of the speech was to give his followers hope and reason for the struggle of their new movement. • “In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all.”

  6. Subject • The subject was about the new movement that was about to start, with Gandhi explaining what was happening and why it was happening. • Gandhi used his past as a non-violent protester to influence the people to act calmly and that what they’re doing does work.

  7. Tone • The way Gandhi speaks adds a hopeful tone for the new freedom they are trying to achieve. • Gandhi is also peaceful, by saying “We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.”

  8. Ethos • Ethos- While Gandhi is well known as the leader of the non-aggression movement, he still establishes ethos by saying “…hasten to assure that I am the same Gandhi as I was in 1920. I have not changed in any fundamental respect. I attach the same importance to non-violence that I did then. “

  9. Pathos • Throughout the speech, Gandhi refers to their God and how religion is important in this situation. By appealing to their empathy and respect of their religion, he develops pathos. • “I have faith, therefore, that if, in spite of our shortcomings, the big thing does happen, it will be because God wanted to help us by crowning with success our silent, unremitting Sadhana for the last twenty-two years.”

  10. Logos • The appeal to logic is used in tempting the people not to hate the British. Many people were talking about welcoming the Japanese to defeat the English, so he responds “This hatred would even make them welcome the Japanese. It is most dangerous. It means that they will exchange one slavery for another. We must get rid of this feeling. Our quarrel is not with the British people, we fight their imperialism.” • Gandhi is saying that the British people aren’t what we are fighting, it’s their ideals and control that we want to get rid of.

  11. Conclusion • Gandhi was trying to inspire the people in the new movement to be peaceful and patient. While, ultimately, the movement didn’t work, the people remained peaceful and India gained its freedom in 1947. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vURO5LiUPI Thank you for your time

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