Pilgrim of Peace. Complete biography with commentaries by renowned scholars, Gandhi contemporaries and others.
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Quotes:
Albert Einstein
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time.”
Listen to Einstein speak about Gandhi, and read letters in correspondence with Gandhi
“Everyone concerned in the better future of mankind must be deeply moved by the tragic death of Mahatma Gandhi. He died as the victim of his own principles, the principle of nonviolence.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi… the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.” read more
–The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 1964.
Nelson Mandela
“Gandhi believed in the human capacity to change and waged Satyagraha against his oppressors, not to destroy him but to transform him, that he ceases his oppression and join the oppressed in the pursuit of Truth.” read more
–excerpted from “The Sacred Warrior,” in TIME magazine’s People of the Century, January 2000.
Please visit the other links provided to read more quotes by and about Gandhi.
Links:
Follow these links to learn more about Gandhi and Satya Graha:
www.mkgandhi.org
Comprehensive site with biographies, quotations, writings and other information and articles on Gandhi.
www.gandhiserve.org
The Gandhi Serve Foundation provides Gandhi research and media services.
www.mahatma.com
Source for quotations, writings, speeches and other literature on Gandhi.
www.gandhi-manibhavan.org
Information on Gandhi’s work, philosophy and life.
www.gandhimuseum.org
Resources from The National Gandhi Museum, Rajghat, New Delhi
Books:
For those interested in reading about Gandhi and his work, the following books may be a helpful starting point:
Gandhi, Mohandas K. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Beacon Press.
Gandhi, Mohandas K. Satyagraha in South Africa, Navajivan Publishing House.
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, the 100 volume series published by the Government of India is available online here
Fischer, Louis, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas. Vintage Press.
Iyer, Raghavan., ed. The Essential Writings of Gandhi. Oxford University Press.
Jack, Homer A. The Gandhi Reader, Grove Press.
