Gandhi once said "Poverty is the worst kind of violence"? What did he mean by this?
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Although i have deep respect and admiration for much of what Gandhi stood for, i prefer to focus on what Christ taught.\nThis what Jesus said concerning poverty...\n\nMATTHEW 26:11\n For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.\n\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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Bloodshed is wrong.\n\nKilling innocent people is wrong, even if it's in war.\n\nWhere does this leave us?\n\nNo where good.\n\nThis war is EVIL.
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There is nothing called BADEST....its WORST.\n\nthe worst thing i ever did is.. using the word Badest few years ago, in a school speech.
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On January 30, 1948, on his way to a prayer meeting, Gandhi was shot dead in Birla House, New Delhi, by Nathuram Godse. Godse was a Hindu radical with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan. Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were later tried and convicted, and on 15 November 1949, were executed. A prominent revolutionary and Hindu extremist, the president of the Mahasabha, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was accused of being the architect of the plot, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Gandhi's memorial at Rāj Ghāt, New Delhi, bears the epigraph, which may be translated as "Oh God". These are widely believed to be Gandhi's last words after he was shot at, though the veracity of this statement has been disputed by many.
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Good post. Stalin was a terrible man.\n\nAnd let's not forget Chairman Mao.
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I greatly admired the courage he showed in remaining committed to the cause of non-violence.  As a young man, he embraced the concept of social change through non-violence, following M. Gandhi's example.  As an older man, after an initially successful run with non-violence, and in the face of changing times, he withstood the pressure he felt from his fellow civil rights and social change activists to employ violence where "necessary" and stayed the course of non-violence throughout the rest of his life.  It was, ironically, his commitment to non-violence that caused him to go to Memphis (to remind the marchers of the need for non-violence) where he would die violently.
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In poverty-stricken areas.  When people are chronically broke and looked down upon, they look for strength in numbers and turn to violence.\nGang violence is especially bad in places like El Salvador, home of MS-13.
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Here is a good article on Gandhian non-violence and the US Civil Rights movement.\nhttp://www.san.beck.org/GPJ25-KingCivilRights.html\n\nKing frequently cited Gandhi, Cesar Chavez did often.\nRalph Abernathy cited Gandhi as an example.\nRev. James Lawson, who led the Nashville student boycotts, cited Gandhi as an example.
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Definitely. Gandhi was a corrupt man. Sadly the contributions of great freedom fighters are overlooked. I don't agree American or Britons knowledge of Gandhi, because they know nothing about him.
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Gandhi\n\nHe said it better than I ever could.  If you want peace, be peace, if you want love, be love, be loving.  Look within first, before looking at others and what "they" are all doing "wrong".
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by Martin Luther King\n"Whenever this issue [compensatory treatment] is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more."\n\nthat is what he said the white man will say. \n\n "On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up." \n"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." \n"... for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages — potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. \n\nHe was a leader how did he fail his people. The real question is what is whites excuse not to be successful. When they had 400 years of benefiting for slavery. Somethings black never had, some still do get that benefit. Others wasn't even allowed to vote until 1965.
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your sick..........violence is the last refuge of a frustrated and ignorent mind............your just as bad as those whom you judge.........ever hear of God........Karma.........
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“God has no religion” \n Mahatma Gandhi \n \n“There is no god higher than truth.” \n Mahatma Gandhi \n \n“I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them.” \n Mahatma Gandhi
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Home safety improvements can start with alarm systems, add a good dog, then get and learn to use a firearm. (Note: Firearms are not for everyone.  If you have kids, think long and hard about a firearm.)\n\nMy opinion on poverty is (1) bad or corrupt government (2) poor education due to bad system (back to government) or lack of funds (3) lack of opportunities (government again)\n(4) lack of motivation are the cause of poverty.\n\nThe solution is replace "bad and lack" with "good and plenty".
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India, and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha - the resistance of tyranny through mass Civil Disobedience strongly founded upon ahimsa (total non-violence) — which led India to independence, and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known and addressed in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi (from Sanskrit, Mahatma: Great Soul) and as Bapu (in many Indian languages, Father).
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I am not sure what your question is. Assuming that you are asking about what factors contribute to nonviolence, the answer lies in history.\n\nHistorical and religious figures (Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira, Gandhi, King) have realized that violence breeds violence. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.\n\nIt is this disenchantment and futility of violence as a means of problem solving that has contributed to the realization that nonviolence is better.\n\ncc
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"An eye for an eye, only makes the whole world blind." -- Mohandis Gandhi.