Tag: poverty

• Poverty by Kazi Nazrul Islam

  Translation: Kabir Chowdhury O poverty, thou hast made me great.Thou hast made me honoured like ChristWith his crown of thorns. Thou hast given meCourage to reveal all. To thee I oweMy insolent, naked eyes and sharp tongue.Thy curse has turned my violin to a sword.O proud saint, thy terrible fireHas rendered my heaven barren.It has…

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  June 24, 2021

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  Kazi Nazrul Islam, poverty

• 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

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• Martin Luther King, Farewell Statement for All India Radio, March 9, 1959 (Audio)

  

  Farewell Statement for All India Radio Listen to Audio here Leaders in and out of government, organizations—particularly the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi and the Quaker Centre—and many homes and families have done their utmost to make our short stay both pleasant and instructive. We have learned a lot. We are not rash enough to presume that…

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  April 25, 2019

  Gandhi, India, Martin Luther King Jr.

  Christianity, civil rights, civilization, faith, freedom, God, Hinduism, Humanity, India, Love, poverty, Theology, Truth

• Ghana Calls by W.E.B Du Bois

  Dedicated to Kwame Nkrumah I was a little boy, at home with strangers.    I liked my playmates, and knew well,    Whence all their parents came; From England, Scotland, royal France    From Germany and oft by chance The humble Emerald Isle. But my brown skin and close-curled hair Was alien, and how it grew, none knew;…

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  April 24, 2019

  W.E.B Du Bois

  Art, civilization, freedom, Ghana, imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah, Pan Africa, PanAfricanism, peace, philosophy, poetry, poverty, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa

• 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

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• W.E.B Du Bois, The Hands Of Ethiopia

  Here are the beginnings of a modern industrial system: iron and steel for permanent investment, bound to yield large dividends; cloth as the cheapest exchange for invaluable raw material; liquor to tickle the appetites of the natives and render the alienation of land and the breakdown of customary law easier; eventually forced and contract labor…

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  February 26, 2019

  W.E.B Du Bois

  black civilization, capitalism, civilization, empire, freedom, imperialism, intercivilizational unity, Pan Africa, PanAfricanism, Paul Robeson, poverty, slavery, the hands of Ethiopia, The World and Africa, Vladimir Lenin, W.E.B Du Bois, War