Not since
Buddha has India so reverenced any man. Not since St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
philosophy of Gandhi.
-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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
I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma
Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.
-Ho
Chi Minh
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
