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Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever
in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.
-- Albert Einstein
Mahatma Gandhi came and stood at the door of India's destitute
millions, clad as one of themselves, speaking to them in their own
language...who else has so unreservedly accepted the vast masses of
the Indian people as his flesh and blood...Truth awakened Truth.
-- Rabindranath Tagore.
He was right, he knew he was right, we all knew he was right. The
man who killed him knew he was right. However long the follies of
the violent continue, they but prove that Gandhi was right. 'Resist
to the very end', he said, 'but without violence'. Of violence the
world is sick. Oh, India, dare to be worthy of your Gandhi.
-- Pearl S. Buck
I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma
Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.
- - Ho Chi Minh.
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from
the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of
Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the 'back to
nature' optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of
Nietzsche, I found in the non-violent resistance pholosophy of
Gandhi
- - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not since Buddha has India so reverenced any man. Not since St.
Francis of Assissi has any life known to history been so marked by
gentleness, disinterestedness, simplicity of soul and forgiveness of
enemies. We have the astonishing phenomenon of a revolution led by a
saint.
-- Will Durant
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