Walking 240 miles to make his own salt broke a colonial law without a single punch thrown

In March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led a 24-day, 240-mile march to the Arabian Sea coast at Dandi to defy Britain's salt monopoly by making salt from seawater himself, a crime under colonial law. Tens of thousands joined the campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience, some 60,000 were jailed by year's end, and the march drew global attention to India's independence movement.

— Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India — Knopf, 2011
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