Throughout history, violent reform movements have traditionally been used, but nonviolence has proven equally effective. Nonviolence is the clear distinction between right and wrong. When violence is followed by nonviolence you cannot continue fighting up to a certain point. Mohandas Gandhi was a well-known pacifist and spiritual and political leader of India during the Indian Independence Movement. Gandhi studied law in England before returning to India to fight the caste system by doing jobs that even an untouchable would have done. He fought the British salt tax by starting "The Salt March". Nelson Mandela fought the government through nonviolence to abolish apartheid laws in South Africa. Mandela spent nearly twenty-seven years in prison, where his hunger for the freedom of his own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, black and white. Martin Luther King Jr. led a civil rights movement in America. He spoke out in favor of justice for African Americans, the end of racial discrimination and the laws that embodied it. These activists used many ways to protest. What made the nonviolent protests of Gandhi, King, and Mandela successful is that they risked their opponents' economic profits, willingly accepted punishment, and embraced their enemies. In Dharasana, India, in May 1930, Mohandas Gandhi planned the "Salt March" to fight the British salt tax before being arrested. With three hundred and twenty injured and two dead, the Salt March continued to protest the tax as long as possible. On May 24, 1930, a cartoon of Gandhi salting the tail of the British lion was published. This cartoon emphasized Gandhi's protest against the salt tax. In Atlanta, Georgia, in October 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. attended… half of the newspaper… eace. In March 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. and many boycotters were voluntarily arrested. People rushed to get arrested, and many were disappointed when they weren't. They were proud to be arrested for the cause of freedom. In June 1964, Nelson Mandela informed his lawyer that he would accept his sentence, including death, and would not appeal. He felt this would undermine the moral stand he had taken. Mandela felt that he would not die in vain, that if anything he could serve a greater cause in death as a martyr than he ever could in life. Each man felt that their message was that no sacrifice is too great in the fight for freedom. Despite different time periods, situations, and places, these men all saw how economic pressure, accepting sacrifice for their cause, and embracing the enemy would lead them to the results they desired..