Tag: Satyagraha

• In Search Of Satyagraha: Richard Gregg, Gandhi, and King’s Pilgrimage to Nonviolence

  Dr. King imprisoned for his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott, 1956 In the following letter to Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885-1974), a white American pacifist and social theorist, presents his thoughts on Gandhi had a significant influence on Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the American Civil Rights movement responds to an offer of […]

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  March 25, 2019

  Gandhi, Howard Thurman, India, Martin Luther King Jr., Pan-Africanism, politics, W.E.B Du Bois, Year of Gandhi

  black civilization, civil rights, civilization, freedom, history of science, intercivilizational unity, liberation, Montgomery bus boycott, Nonviolence, Richard Bartlett Gregg, Satyagraha, science, social sciences, Stride Towards Freedom, the color line, 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

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• Mahatma Gandhi, WHY DID I ASSIST IN THE LAST WAR?

  Gandhi, 1929 A correspondent asks some pertinent questions in the following pungent fashion: “When the Zulus broke out for liberty against the British usurpers, you helped the British in suppressing the so-called rebellion. Is it a rebellion to try to shake off the foreign yoke? Was Jean D’arc a rebel? Was George Washington a rebel? […]

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  March 14, 2019

  Gandhi, Pan Asia, Pan-Africanism, philosophy, politics, Year of Gandhi

  civilization, peace, Satyagraha, Truth, War

• 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