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As Gandhi had hoped, the salt campaign was a turning point in swaying international opinion in favor of the Indian cause.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
But the intellectual and what is called spiritual man in him were slumbering as in an infant. He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
King pushed through the crowd. The front porch, broken in two by the bomb, was covered with shattered glass from broken windows. He walked across it. Inside the front room, which was still reeking of dynamite fumes, were the Mayor and other city officials, whom King brushed past. In a back room was a crowd of neighbors; it was only when they parted
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
“In moments of unrest, it’s important to remember that, as Martin Luther King Jr. stated, there is no greater purveyor of violence than the US government. From war to policing to incarceration to border violence to the slashing of the social safety net, the US government kills untold millions. The violence of rebellion is infinitesimal by compariso
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