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- kenn5, on 03/13/2008, -2/+57"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
- NinjaPig, on 03/13/2008, -3/+48Reporter: "What do you think about western civilization?"
Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." - inactive, on 03/13/2008, -5/+47Ghandi for president!
- darkchild82, on 03/13/2008, -2/+42As an Indian, I appreciate this - but when this lands up in the 'Offbeat' popular section, errrr.... I mean, you could've put it under Lifestyle > Educational
- ragmaster, on 03/13/2008, -1/+41"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
- Gandhi - selmer, on 03/13/2008, -3/+31I just read an article on espn.com about the Stanford recruit that was just gunned down in LA...to read this Ghandi article right afterwards was illuminating. My first reaction to the LA story was of vengeance, kill the bastard that did this. But that is the animal response and just perpetuates the cycle, with no true justice...I wonder if our country could ever really accept Ghandi's message on a societal scale. It would be great, but I doubt it.
- jonxblaze, on 03/13/2008, -9/+36Dugg for Ghandi!
- sleepygup, on 03/13/2008, -3/+27His last name is Gandhi nor Ghandi. They are totally different last names.
- demonstealer, on 03/13/2008, -1/+24"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
- MG (lovingly called Bapu) - str3ama, on 03/13/2008, -1/+22"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - TheSarf, on 03/13/2008, -4/+20Holy ***** the name is not difficult to spell. It isn't misspelled in the title or description, you can just look there. It isn't "Ghandi" or "Gandi." It is "Gandhi." *****, even your spell check gets it.
- MrErr, on 03/13/2008, -1/+17Once when Gandhi was asked "Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you appear to so adamantly reject becoming his follower?" Gandhi replied, "Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." Apparently Gandhi's rejection of Christianity grew out of an incident that happened when he was a young man practicing law in South Africa. He had become attracted to the Christian faith, had studied the Bible and the teachings of Jesus, and was seriously exploring becoming a Christian. And so he decided to attend a church service. As he came up the steps of the large church where he intended to go, a white South African elder of the church barred his way at the door. "Where do you think you're going, kaffir?" the man asked Gandhi in a belligerent tone of voice. Gandhi replied, "I'd like to attend worship here." The church elder snarled at him, "There's no room for kaffirs in this church. Get out of here or I'll have my assistants throw you down the steps." From that moment, Gandhi said, he decided to adopt what good he found in Christianity, but would never again consider becoming a Christian if it meant being part of the church.
... Just some history. - breeder, on 03/13/2008, -3/+15I agree, but "people" is under offbeat, and I thought that was a better fit. In no do I consider this to be "offbeat".
- kapi, on 03/13/2008, -2/+13Gandhi
- anstice85, on 03/13/2008, -3/+13Terrible troll, you also posted this in another story about Obama:
"interesting how he conspicuously left out the relevant fact that his middle name is Hussein. What a decietful *****. "
CAN IT ALREADY YOU NIT - anstice85, on 03/13/2008, -1/+11A troll is someone who thinks that a person's middle name has any bearing or relevance to anything. He'll likely be your next President, so the sooner you accept it the better.
- pintomp3, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10all of them played a role, including bhagat singh
- PhilThePhenom, on 03/13/2008, -2/+12It's sad how more and more people are forgetting the significance Gandhi. One of the greatest humans ever to live.
- hs112186, on 03/13/2008, -0/+9and Udham Singh
- crazybugger, on 03/13/2008, -3/+11Lets send this to Osama and Bush!
- santasing, on 03/13/2008, -0/+8From: http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/articl ...
Most readers are familiar with Gandhi's great hunger strike against the so called Poona Pact in 1933. The matter which Gandhi was protesting, nearly unto death at that, was the inclusion in the draft Indian Constitution, proposed by the British, that reserved the right of Dalits to elect their own leaders. Dr. Ambedkar, with his degree in law from Cambridge, had been chosen by the British to write the new constitution for India. Having spent his life overcoming caste-based discrimination, Dr. Ambedkar had come to the conclusion that the only way Dalits could improve their lives is if they had the exclusive right to vote for their leaders, that a portion or reserved section of all elected positions were only for Dalits and only Dalits could vote for these reserved positions.
As with other British policies of divide and rule, the British were trying to create 2 levels of government in India at that time, one for regular people and one for so-called "dalits". This is what Gandhi was protesting, not the issue of equal rights. - knodi, on 03/13/2008, -2/+10Iraq needs a Gandhi figure.
- ortucis, on 03/13/2008, -1/+8You are on Digg. Here, Steve Jobs getting a new vagina can be found in the 'Educational' section for geeks.. not an article about a guy like Gandhi.
- NinjaPig, on 03/13/2008, -6/+13That is such *****, please don't replace words....place the exact quote if you're going to cite something. Your link which i just read said "NATIVE PRISONERS" in lieu of (Black). Native prisoners...not native people, nothing in the slightest racial. That article also talks about the untouchables and in parenthesis clarifies them as "black people".
In reference to the article, I wonder if its author even knows what an "untouchable" refers to India? The distinction of untouchable is placed on the impoverished. It is a distinction based on societal standard that has existed in India through hindu castes that has NOTHING to do with skin color, much less race. The blogger merely dismisses the untouchables as black people.
The author also claims, "My research into Gandhi and what he actually did to the Untouchables is radically different from what the Rev. King uttered. In a nutshell, Gandhi made sure that the vast Untouchable population would be willingly subjugated forever under the oppression of the higher castes. Dr. King was off by a mile." That's it. Absolutely nothing to support this. - ankit585, on 03/13/2008, -0/+6For the nth time, its Gandhi not Ghandi
- SuminderJi, on 03/13/2008, -1/+7Hearts of men changed. Can you truely tell me that you have never been enlightented and proven wrong - in which you saw the way you did things in the past as negative.
Also he didn't sleep with his grand-daughters. He slept with girls, but he didn't have sex with them. He was a man after all, not god. - swrostmore, on 03/13/2008, -6/+12Ghandi was a racist, does that mean he doesn't deserve praise for liberating India through nonviolence?
- dino74, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6I feel lame for looking at this on a Covey site, but it's powerful. Gonna go take a steel wool bath now.
- staxofmax, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6Depends on the entrance criteria.
- crazydiode, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5also the FTA Steve calls Arun Nehru "I heard her speak..." .. Arun is a guy / male. He is the grandson..
- pintomp3, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6"... if [the Jews in Palestine] must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb"
- ortucis, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5If British had 'a little' culture, ethics and disciple, they wouldn't have beaten the ***** out of unarmed protestors, including Gandhi.
- okcomputer1982, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5Amazing ideas, truly things that courage people do. Gandhi wasn't perfect, but it can't be denied that we all would love to live in a world were people truly believed and lived by ideas like these.
As far as the "fear of god" line goes. I think the thing people don't understand about the idea of God is it's connection to the idea of humility. By fear noone but God, Gandhi was able to resolve in his mind both the idea of his own power, strength and responsibility as a human but at the same time understand that there is something greater then him that he has a responsibility to. There is room to talk about the existence of God(or conscienceness or love or courage) in some abstract sense, but I fear by trying to kill the idea of something greater the man in the universe we also close the door on being humble enough to not selfishly just kill each other for lack of authority beyond our own self-interest. If we make ourselves all God, ultimately we will all die alone. If we look up to something greater then us, we can all reach for it together. - d03boy, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6before or after his personal revolution?
- okcomputer1982, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6maybe it's because of your assumption that courage is neither realistic or advisable. Maybe because your statements seems cowardly and sad. I for one would rather die naive then live as you suggest.
- exronin, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4I think he meant god in a very different sense. After you study several religions, god doesn't hold the exact same value as the "Christian God." It becomes a more spiritual than a purely religious term.
- santasing, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4One word: Jallianwallah
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -4/+8Ghandi didn't convince India. The Amritsar massacre and The Jallianwallah Bagh massacre convinced India.
- MrErr, on 03/13/2008, -1/+5Actually back during imperial times, Gandhi methods did not make sense either but they were succesful.
- Handmedowner, on 03/13/2008, -2/+6Wow! What incredible absence of sensibility! What total lack of brainpower! How do you manage to breathe even sis?
- Vaelan, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3Great article but one big issue... It says "I listened to Gandhi’s granddaughter... Arun Gandhi...". Well, the last time I checked - Arul is a masculine name in India. Arun Gandhi is the third grandson of Mohandas Gandhi and a political activist like his grandfather.
See link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Gandhi
And the last time I heard, he lives in the USA. So someone has made a mistake in the article... - okcomputer1982, on 03/13/2008, -1/+4I think the thing people don't understand about the idea of God is that above all things a means by which humans can learn humility. As long as we are all filled with fear of each other, an over inflated ego about our place in the universe and no real ideals to grow towards, we will without a doubt all kill each other and die horrible deaths. Call it God, existence, or substrate-conscience or the great oneness, having SOMETHING in your life to look up to that is beyond what we can see and hold is a power, positive idea.
- bharadwajharish, on 03/13/2008, -3/+6It's Gandhi for ***** sake ..tired of Ghandi , Ghandhi and gandi ..
- ronin691, on 03/13/2008, -1/+4We all need to adopt the same attitude and position, more than ever.
- purag66, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3What are you smoking? He singlehandedly brought down the British Empire's crown jewel.
- bharadwajharish, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3Gandhi.. is that tough to remember ?
- morpheus69, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2UMMM...Ok, but beyond noting peoples misspellings, do you have any constructive criticisms of their actual arguments. Let's face it Diggers, grammar and spelling are not our forte. Why don't we agree to stop commenting on semantics and argue the actual points of argument!
- deadmantalkin, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3Those two incidents only served to precipitate the events that followed. Gandhiji did play a big role in convincing India
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -3/+5First off, these sources are not reliable(the first one is even a Pakistani website and they got everything against India). In early days Gandhi did many mistakes like stealing, having sex with his wife when his father was dying. All this is mentioned in the book 'My experiments with Truth'. But he did learn from his mistakes.
From the article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/17/southa ...
"Gandhi's offending comments were made early in his life when he was influenced by Indians working on the sugar plantations and did not get on with the black people of modern-day KwaZulu-Natal province, said Mr Ntshangase." -
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