By: Louis Fischer
BookNo.: r019
Asunto: highlights
Fecha: 13/10/11
- Proper accounting... Essential especially for charitable institutions
- Cleanliness... He was completely against humans doing their ba ic necessities anywhere, poverty not being an excuse
- Ready to acknowledge he was wrong: India served on a platter to Japan if Britain left ... Change of position in Harijan
- The purity of Gadhi's methods made it difficult for Smuts to oppose him. Victory came to Gandhi not when Smuts had no more strength to fight him but when he had no more heart to fight him. Professor Gilbert Murray wrote: 'be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous and uncomfortable enemy because his body which you can always conquer gives you so little purchase over his soul' (fortitude, poverty, dettachment)
- 'I expect through cleaning of heartsl he declared. It did not matter what the Moslem's in Pakstan were doing. Hindus and Sikhs should remember Tagore's favorite song: 'If no one responds to your call, Walk alone, Walk alone.' (perseverance, difficulties )
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