Nonviolence Daily

Day 347

The Metta Center for Nonviolence Season 2024 Episode 347

The highest honor my friends can do me, is to enforce in their own lives the program that I stand for, or to resist me with their utmost if they do not believe in it.

-Gandhi, Young India, June 12, 1924


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I can't think of any other great figure in history who has actually said this, has actually felt that he or she was his or her contribution to truth and did not mind being dismissed where that contribution was inaccurate, was misplaced. 

I mean, it shows in one way, his tremendous detachment from the personal well-being. And in another, his incredible faith in the truth to which he was dedicated his whole adult life.