On 7 June 1893, Mahatma Gandhi performed his first civil disobedience act.
On 7 June 1893, Mahatma Gandhi was forced to leave a first class compartment of a train in South Africa because of racial discrimination. As Gandhi refused to leave his seat, he was thrown out of the train.
Mohandas Gandhi, then a young Indian lawyer recently arrived in South Africa, was asked to shift from the first class compartment of a train even though he had a valid ticket, just because he was not white-skinned. He refused and told the railway officers that if they wanted to throw him out, they could but he would not go voluntarily. This act of standing up against injustice was, in effect, Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience. And a lesson that he would never forget
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