Hari’s note: It was about a month ago when my mother told me about a poetry competition. She added that the theme was “Speaking Up”. It took me about a second to think of Mahatma Gandhi. I watched the movie about him around a year ago, and I remembered how inspired I was by him. I was inspired by him for many reasons. I was amazed by his compassion in treating people of lower caste with supreme respect. I was amazed that this one man took a stand and in doing so, made the whole nation rise up as one against British colonization. This man was never ashamed to be who he was even when people in London mocked him for wearing Indian clothes. Gandhi was an example of what a 99.999999% perfect person should be.