Category: Ahimsa

• Satyagraha in Ghana

  “Positive action has already achieved remarkable success in the liberation struggle of our continent and I feel sure that it can further save us from the perils of this atomic arrogance. If the direct action that was carried out by the international protest team were to be repeated on a mass scale, or simultaneously from…

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  January 5, 2021

  Ahimsa, Art

  civilization, freedom, Kwame Nkrumah, peace, the color line

• Protected: The Non-Violent State: Du Bois’ Dark Princess in Light of Ahimsa

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  October 15, 2020

  Ahimsa, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., philosophy, philosophy of science, Satyagraha, science, social reform, sociology, Soviet Union, Swami Vivekananda, Theology, W.E.B Du Bois

  civilization, Dark Princess, freedom, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhaba, Love, Nonviolence, nonviolent state, peace, the color line, theory of the novel, W.E.B Du Bois

• ഭൂമിദാനം / भूदान / Bhoomidan

  Bhoomidanam (“land gift”) was a movement led by Acharya Vinoba Bhave, an Indian sage and Gandhian disciple who walked hundreds of miles through India for 13 years with the mission of convincing landlords to renounce some of their holdings, for the social uplift of the poor and downtrodden and in order to promote village self-sufficiency.…

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  July 27, 2020

  Ahimsa, Art, Barack Obama, imperialism, India, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., neocolonialism, neoliberalism, peace, Vinoba Bhave

  Ahimsa, Bhoodan, civilization, freedom, imperialism, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., peace, Satyagraha, the color line, Vinoba Bhave

• Buddhism, the Fulfilment of Hinduism by Swami Vivekananda

  Delivered on 26th September, 1893 I am not a Buddhist, as you have heard, and yet I am. If China, or Japan, or Srilanka follow the teachings of the Great Master, India worships him as God incarnate on earth. You have just now heard that I am going to criticise Buddhism, but by that I…

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  July 21, 2020

  Ahimsa, black Buddha, philosophy

• Portrait of Nandalal Bose, artist and freedom fighter

  Bose was a key figure in the Indian Satyagraha for Freedom, pupil of Abindranath Tagore, and Gandhi’s favorite artist. He also sketched the emblems for the Government of India’s awards, including the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Shri, per Nehru’s request, in addition to decorating the Constitution of India

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  July 12, 2020

  Ahimsa, Art, Gandhi, nandalal Bose, Nonviolence, peace, Satyagraha, Year of Gandhi

  civilization, Santiniketan

• Mahatma Gandhi in Sudan

  “In 1935, Mahatma Gandhi stopped over in Port Sudan (on his way to England through sea) and was welcomed by the Indian community there. In 1938, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stopped over in Port Sudan on his way to Britain and was hosted through a function at the home of Chhotalal Samji Virani. The Graduates General…

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  July 12, 2020

  Ahimsa, Art, Black Athena, Free Africa, Gandhi, Gandhi 150th, imperialism, India, Jesus and the Disinherited, Nonviolence, Pan-Africanism, peace, Satyagraha, Sudan, Truth, Year of Gandhi

  beloved community, civil rights, civilization, freedom, Hinduism, imperialism, labor, Love, Pan Africa, PanAfricanism, Paul Robeson, peace, poverty, race, Satyagraha, socialism, the color line, War

• Ahimsa as a Science Of Love and Social Action

  Impure means result in an impure end. Hence, prince and the peasant will not be equaled by cutting off the prince’s head, nor can the process of cutting off equalize the employer and the employed. One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth. —Gandhiji The artist of this untitled piece, K.H.…

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  October 17, 2019

  Ahimsa, Art, Gandhi, Gandhi 150th, Howard Thurman, imperialism, India, Jesus and the Disinherited, life, light, literature, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Pan Asia, Pan-Africanism, peace, philosophy, sarvodaya, Satyagraha, science, social reform, Swami Vivekananda, Theology, Truth, Year of Gandhi

  collapse of Europe, freedom, Western civilization

• The Moral Government of the World: On Faith, Reason, and Truth

  I. THE SOUL-FORCE IN HISTORY In his spiritual message to the world, notable because it is one of the rare extant speeches Mohandas K. Gandhi gave in English, the satygrahi remarked that There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power…

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  March 15, 2019

  African-American, Ahimsa, American Empire, Gandhi, Gandhi 150th, Howard Thurman, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence, peace, philosophy, Satyagraha, Theology, Truth, W.E.B Du Bois, Western Christianity, Year of Gandhi

  Backs Against The Wall, beloved community, black Christianity, black civilization, British Empire, capitalism, civil rights, civilization, empiricism, faith, freedom, God, history of science, Howard Thurman, imperialism, India, intercivilizational unity, James Baldwin, liberation, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., oppression, Pan Asia, peace, philosophy, poverty, race, reason, Satyagraha, social sciences, socialism, Sue Bailey Thurman, systematic theology, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa, Theology, War, Western academy, Western civilization, Western science

• Western Zionism and the Promise of Peace in Palestine

  From the time of the Balfour Declaration (during World War I) Palestine was under five British mandates, and England promised the land back and forth to the Arabs or the Jews, depending on which horse seemed to be in the lead.  The Zionists – as distinguished from the people known as the Jews – using,…

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  April 20, 2018

  Ahimsa, Uncategorized

  freedom, Hinduism, imperialism, India, Islam, Judaism, liberation, Mahatma Gandhi, Palestine, Pan Africa, Pan Asia, PanAfricanism, peace, sarvodaya, Satyagraha, the color line, W.E.B Du Bois, world peace