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by Mahatma Gandhi (Author)
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader that the only means for the realization of Truth is ahimsa, I shall deem all my labour in writing these chapters to have been in vain. And, even though my efforts in this behalf may prove fruitless, let the readers know that the vehicle, not the great principle, is at fault.
- M. K. Gandhi
by Mahatma Gandhi (Author)
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader that the only means for the realization of Truth is ahimsa, I shall deem all my labour in writing these chapters to have been in vain. And, even though my efforts in this behalf may prove fruitless, let the readers know that the vehicle, not the great principle, is at fault.
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| Product Description: | My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader that the only means for the realization of Truth is ahimsa, I shall deem all my labour in writing these chapters to have been in vain. And, even though my efforts in this behalf may prove fruitless, let the readers know that the vehicle, not the great principle, is at fault.- M. K. Gandhi |
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If what you said was true wonder why Martin Luther king was inspired by Gandhi. People spread a lot of lies about Gandhi to decrease his momentum at that time .
Well said! Unfortunately people always want to find faults to bring a person down once it doesn't suit their ideology. What an irony!
Cute.
I am sure, even Mr. Gandhi would not approve of the cult of personality that has been woven around him today.
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Wait, are you saying that "people of color" are incapable of being racist? You either are really young or you don't know many people of color, do you?
well they can be racist, but given the setup in South Africa, being a racist is not a viable option for a brown man..that too a barrister at law.
I remember this from grad school:
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a
super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis!
I remember this from grad school:
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a
super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis!
You sir (or madam), win the internets today.
*tips hat*
That's the problem with today's America, we believe everything we read as factual information and the News media giants know this, they COUNT on it.
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I'm surprised most people do not know that Gandhi called blacks in South Africa with a negative slur. You have to keep in mind a lot of what he expressed at this time was before his time as a freedom fighter. He also expressed feelings that the blacks were lower than the Indians who were fighting for equal rights in South Africa. At the time, he believed that the blacks were not as worthy of freedom as Indians were because they were lower class. I know it sounds crazy but it was a different time and he was probably a considerably different man before he started his freedom marches. A lot of Indians were sent to Africa by the British to work, so there was a sizeable population of Indians there. After Gandhi finished his law studies in England, he worked in South Africa as a young lawyer. There are written accounts where he refers to the black population as kaffirs, which is a negative slur.
What I find really interesting is that there are a lot of people who are completely unaware of this part of his history. He has become more than a part of Indian history, he's a symbol for the country and as a result there is a lot of white washing of his character. It's the same thing with Thomas Jefferson. How often do Americans learn about him being a slave owner? When it is brought up its downplayed. His earlier transgressions and weird behavior (sleeping with his niece and a young girl to fight temptation) don't diminish his achievements and what he represented, so I don't see why people get upset when the truth is brought up.
Also your claim that he wasn't a racist because he fought for the rights of blacks in South Africa is unequivocally false.
In The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire, Desai and Vahed write that during his stay in Africa, Gandhi kept the Indian struggle "separate from that of Africans and coloureds even though the latter were also denied political rights on the basis of colour and could also lay claim to being British subjects".
'In 1893, Gandhi wrote to the Natal parliament saying that a "general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are a little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa".'