Generations
to come, it may be, 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.
Gandhi was
probably the first person in history to lift the love ethic of Jesus above
mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social
force on a large scale. 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 - I and others
may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly
or indirectly, nothing more nothing less. - Ho
Chi Minh. 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 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
Martin Luther King, Jr.
