Gandhi looked at the ocean and walked onto the beach. He took some salt in his hand and showed it to the people. ´I am breaking the law,´ he said. Gandhi was an ordinary boy from an ordinary Hindu family in India. He married and had children. He studied law at college in England. But hw was not an ordinary man. His first job took him to South Africa. Here life was hard for Indians. They were not Christians and they were not white. A policeman threw Gandhi off a train because of his color. This changed him. He started to fight for the rights of Indians. When Gandhi left India in 1893, he wore European chlothes. He came back to India in 1915 in simple, white Indian clothes. This was a different man - a man with ideas and new ways of protest.