Sublime

Nehru was ahead of his time; in South Africa, Gandhi's message had the stronger pull. During Gandhi's years as a South African, there were no joint meetings, joint protests, or joint statements. This suited his people well, though years after his departure it would come back to haunt them.

Mandela rose above the atrocities that had once embittered him, developing a formidable spirit that advanced the lives of millions of South Africans and became one of the greatest humanitarians of our time.

love our enemies.

Gandhi understood how words form reality. What he said was “Become the change you want to see in the world.” “Be” is powerful, but finite.

"What student is he who will continue to study at such a time?" Gandhi asked a crowd on March 17, two weeks before the march passed by Narotam's hometown. "Today I ask them to leave schools and come out on the battlefield and become mendicants for the sake of the country ... The final battle has to be waged."

“The American people are infected with racism—that is the peril,” King concluded. “Paradoxically, they are also infected with democratic ideals—that is the hope.”

Mahatma Gandhi said: ‘You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisations to pieces, turn the world upside down, and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.’

Marx made him aware of how the conditions shaping mass populations of factory workers and soldiers robbed their bodies of an internal sense of agency molding them for submission to national and industrial goals formed by others. Like Gandhi,