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“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Download “Gandhi: an Autobiography - The Story of my Experiments with Truth” here: http://goo.gl/Jo1qx.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi passed away 64 years ago.
He was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. Pioneering the use of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a tool to fight for civil rights and freedom that he called satyagraha, he founded his doctrine of nonviolent protest to achieve political and social progress based upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence for which he is internationally renowned. Gandhi led India to its independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma (or “Great Soul,” an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore). In India, he is also called Bapu (or “Father”) and officially honoured as the Father of the Nation. His birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence… (more)
Complete movie here:
Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both won Academy Awards for their work on the film. The film was also given the Academy Award for Best Picture and won eight Academy Awards. It was an international co-production between production companies in India and the UK. The film premiered in New Delhi on 30 November 1982.
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Today we celebrate the “International Day for Tolerance”. It is fair to recognize some of the great geniuses that have devoted their lives to peace and justice:
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.Edith Stein
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi’s Spectacles Missing from Museum
MUMBAI — A pair of round-framed spectacles belonging to India’s independence icon MahatmaGandhi have gone missing from a museum in western India, officials said.
Staff at the Sevagram Ashram, a religious retreat some 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the city of Nagpur, noticed that the glasses had disappeared as they made preparations to mark the anniversary of its founding.
Gandhi first arrived at the ashram near the town of Wardha, in northeast Maharashtra state, in the mid-1930s. The Quit India resolution calling for independence from the British was passed there in July 1942.
The spectacles were among a number of personal items, including a pen stand and a bathroom brush, on display in a locked show cabinet.
Ashram manager Aakash Lokhande told the Press Trust of India news agency on Monday it was unclear when the spectacles went missing.
Police are aware of the matter but no formal complaint has been lodged, he added.
The retreat’s president, M.M. Gadkari, was quoted as saying: “The issue would be discussed in the next meeting of board of trustees and a decision as to whether (a) formal police complaint should be lodged would be taken.”
About 300,000 people visit the ashram every year, PTI said.
