how and why benigno aquino jr is like mahatma gandhi of india?

Question

compare the people power revolution in the philippines in 1986 with gandhi's disobedience in india in the 1920s and 1930s

Answer 1

They were both grassroots movements.
They both practiced non-violent civil resistance.

Aquino and Gandhi both fasted to achieve political goals.
Both were imprisoned for their political beliefs.
Both Aquino and Gandhi were assassinated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninoy_Aquino
http://library.thinkquest.org/15816/thebeginning.article7.html
http://www.tributetoninoy.tk/

Answer 2

Whereas the nonviolent overthrow of Marcos in the Philippines, measured from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, took only three years. Violence feels quicker, because time passes rapidly when you are dodging bullets. nonviolence requires patience because the action is less thrilling.

Theodore Roszak, professor of history and director of the Ecopsychology Institute at California State University, once commented: "People try nonviolence for a week, and when it doesn't work, they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries."

What Roszak means is that violence, even when it succeeds, has major side-effects.

A violent struggle will tend to bring about more destruction of life and property. The difference does not arise because nonviolent struggles are aimed at 'nice' enemies.

The difference arises because, in a violent struggle, the violence of each side goads the other to greater violence. Also, each side uses the violence of the other side to justify its own violence.

Another negative impact of violence is that it leaves the two sides as enemies. The most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution was not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth.
One more myth about Gandhi's nonviolent action is held both by Gandhi's critics and his admirers. In fact, the misunderstanding is so common that most admirers of Gandhi's methods miss the point.