photo credit: Margaret Bourke-White, Life magazine (1946)
Mahatma Gandhi (2 October - 30 January 1958)
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."
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great quote.
and reminder of the power of faith, however it translates in your life.
No matter what one does, whether one's deeds serve virtue or vice, nothing lacks importance. All actions bear a kind of fruit. - Buddha.
"It was alarming to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organising and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor."
--Winston Churchill, addressing the Council of the West Essex Unionists on February 23, 1931
A fakir or faqir is a Sufi, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. Derived from faqr (فقر Arabic), Lit: poverty.[1]
The term is also used, usually sarcastically, for a common street beggar who chants holy names, scriptures or verses without ostensibly having any spiritual advancement.
Just one of many reasons why I think Winston Churchill was not a very good man.
i know his father.
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