![]() ![]() There is no doubt that Gandhi was a highly moral person with a sincere dedication to achieve justice through non-violent means. Augustine, for example, Gandhi is aware that all of his stories and moral lessons will have a political impact on the reader. (Albert Schweitzer, for example, dismissed him as "naive".) STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH is Gandhi's spiritual autobiography, yet unlike THE CONFESSIONS of St. It is hard to think of another major political figure of the twentieth century who was so widely venerated and ignored, sometimes at the same time, or else posthumously. There are statues of Gandhi from Central Park in New York to Havana. ![]() ![]() Ironically, and perhaps also inevitably, it was left up to American conservatives, from NATIONAL REVIEW to COMMENTARY magazines, to point out that the Gandhi up on the screen was not the real deal but the creation of a white British liberal, Richard Attenborough. When the movie GANDHI won the Academy Award for Best Picture back in the 1980s Hollywood liberals joked that it was because he represented everything everyone in Hollywood wanted to be: "thin, tanned, and moral". "If Gandhi had to face off against the French he would have gone to meet his god a long time ago".-Ho Chi Minh "Saints should always be presumed guilty until proven innocent."-George Orwell on Mahatma Gandhi ![]()
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