Be the change you wish to see in the world. --M Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi Wpuld be an Honored Guest

The SquidWho pages I've chosen to adopt are about individuals I would invite to dinner. You know - that proverbial "Famous People I Would Invite to Dinner" question.

Stay tuned for my reasons why.

Thanks for visiting.

Three reasons to love Mahatma Ghandi

"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it"

"What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."

"We do not need to proselytize either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Mahatma Ghandi at a Glance

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: ??????? ?????? ?????, ) (2 October 1869 ? 30 January 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha?resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence?which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: ??????? mah?tm? or "Great Soul", an honorif...

read the rest of the Wikipedia article