By Stacy K. Waltman
It too happened on September 11th ~ one hundred years ago.
Please visit www.workadayforpeace.org for an historical recounting of Mahatma Gandhi’s approach to ending discrimination through his non-violent protestations.
Gandhi changed the nation and the world through his strong and peaceful efforts.
Please take a moment to read the article on Gandhi and perhaps gain a new perspective on the significance of that particular day.
May you be blessed with kindness, wisdom and strength.
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Very nice. The Mahatma says in his autobiography in a meeting in hardwar that he was surprised at becoming so popular in India because of what he did in south Africa. He was one of a kind.
Its a strange coincidence but I too have mentioned him in my latest post in the latest raging controversy- http://hirenshah.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/is-it-vande-mataram-or-bande-baatram-or-dande-laatram/
I realized later that you are a life coach. This too has to do with Gandhi and you may like it:-
http://mypyp.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/hello-world/
Peace is always the best route… here where I am in manila – they fought for years to throw out a dictoator… then copying Mahatma- they won freedom in a peaceful demonstraition called EDSA.
The new democracy is never always perfect… but the people are free.
Peace be with you all… in Jesus name.
Thank you for presenting this bit of history. It is a wonderfully balancing thought that Ghandi’s actions 100 years ago today are as relevent, mabey even more so today. I was sitting here thinking about all the other anniversaries this date holds. I humbly thank you for adding to my list.
Hazel.
thanks for this, i didnt know…
Thank you all for your kind words. They do mean alot to us.
I too am a fan of Ghandi. However, I don’t think there is a comparison here. Ghandi was fighting against a governmental force that though unjust did not rely on the indiscriminate violence and death attacks as the terrorists are doing. He was assinated in 1948 by a Hindu “extremist!”
Ghania also said,”‘I do believe,’ he wrote, ‘that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence….At every meeting I repeated the warning that unless they felt that in non-violence they had come into possession of a force infinitely superior to the one they had and in the use of which they were adept, they should have nothing to do with non-violence and resume the arms they possessed before. It must never be said of the Khudai Khidmatgars that once so brave, they had become or been made cowards under Badshah Khan’s influence. Their bravery consisted not in being good marksmen but in defying death and being ever ready to bare their breasts to the bullets.”
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Assassination]