Thursday, April 30, 2009

Gandhi

Peace, love, forgiveness, humility, non-violence -- some of the things that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma, was all about. Yet, as with Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, Jr., violence ultimately took his life.

Just finished Louis Fischer's The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. Check it out, take a ride.

An excerpt:

General Douglass MacArthur, supreme Allied military commander in Japan, said: "In the evolution of civilization, if it is to survive, all men cannot fail eventually to adopt Gandhi's belief that the process of mass application of force to resolve contentious issues is fundamentally not only wrong but contains within itself the germs of self-destruction."

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