'It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.' 'All training without culture of the spirit was of no use, and might be even harmful.'

This one took a lot longer than I had anticipated, but it was a nice change of pace. My Experiments with Truth, the widely acclaimed autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi marks my next stop in the list of autobiographies. 'Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.' 'Man takes in vice far more readily than virtue.' His spiritual teacher was the Jain philosopher/poet Shrimad Rajchandra. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj-the independence of India from British domination. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. A lifelong opponent of 'communalism' (i.e. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.

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