The type of source being analyzed in this paper is an excerpt from the Speech to the All-India Congress, 1942. The person who wrote this speech, Mohandas K. Gandhi, studied in Great Britain and practiced law in South Africa. While Gandhi was living in those places he witnessed how white society discriminated against Indians. That, in addition to inspiration from the nonviolent principles of Henry Thoreau, led Gandhi to begin the peaceful revolution that would one day lead India in its struggle for independence from Great Britain. Gandhi wrote his “Quit India” speech during World War II, in the year 1942, as a call for people to take non-violent action intended to obtain independence for India. Furthermore, Gandhi knew that many Indians held
