Gandhi, King and Booker T.
from BTW Society
6/14/12
Mohandas Gandhi spent part of his life searching for the roots of violence. Shortly before he was assassinated in 1948, he gave his grandson a list:
The "Seven Blunders of the World":
• Wealth without work
• Pleasure without conscience
• Knowledge without morality
• Commerce without character
• Science without humanity
• Politics without principle
• Rights without responsibilities
Gandhi called these acts of passive violence, that preventing these is the best way to prevent oneself, or one's society, from reaching a point of violence.
Dr. King acknowledged that Gandhi's non-violence philosophy influenced him. But consider that fifty years before Gandhi, Booker T. Washington was teaching, albeit in a slightly different fashion, those same principles to Tuskegee students. Now consider that some students came from India!
One might say that Booker T. Washington influenced Gandhi. So, that could lead us to ponder, "Where did Booker T. Washington get the ideas for his philosophy?"
Booker T. himself gave us a clue when he wrote: "The men doing the vital things of life are those who read the Bible and are Christians and not ashamed to let the world know it." "I make it a rule to read a chapter, or at least of verse, of the Bible every day."
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