write a diary entry on Mahatma Gandhi pushed out of a train
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It's an indelible part of history. On June 7 in 1893, a young lawyer from India was travelling from Durban to Pretoria for work. He bought a first class ticked and got himself a seat in the first class compartment. A European entered the apartment and upon seeing the young man who looked like a "coolie", called the railway authorities and asked that he be removed from the compartment.
The Indian man refused. For this protest, he was thrown off the train with his bag and baggage at Pietermaritzburg railway station. Gandhi's staying 21 years in South Africa fighting for civil rights.
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7 June, 1893
8:00 PM
Dear Diary,
I was travelling in the first-class carriage and was on my way to Pretoria. Just before Pietermaritzburg, a white gentleman sitting opposite me, raised objection to my presence in the compartment. He was agitated and asked me to move to the last compartment in the train, though I held a valid first-class ticket. Soon people gathered around me and the train ticket conductor was called in. They were unanimous in their decision that, I should not be sitting in the first-class compartment.
When the train stopped at Pietermaritzburg station, suddenly some people roughed me up, seized me and threw me on to the cold platform outside. The humiliation and cold, made me shiver. I somehow managed to reach the waiting room, at first feeling very bad at having been insulted. But slowly, a fire started burning within me, to fight this injustice. Injustice and discrimination against coloured people. I decided to stay on in South Africa and fight.
M.K Gandhi