A heroic person can be considered as one who is willing to stand by his principles regardless of the consequence, is a leader or a pioneer in his field, and is looked upto by people and sets an example for others to follow. One great man who possessed all these great qualities was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. At, an outer appearance, he was a man of simple means, but later turned out to be an individual with great principles. This great man took his first breath in this world in the year of 1869, in a wealthy business class family. The roots of Gandhi principles can be found in his early life, when Gandhi learned and adhered the consepts of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between members of various creeds and sects.

Gandhi believed that everyone should have equal treatment, and this can be...