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Gandhi has always been compelling complex and strangely contemporary. Sir Richard We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.
Attenborough introduced “Mahatma” the great soul to the west and the world remains grateful to him. Anythin’ for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.
I grew up understanding Gandhi through others; till I discovered a deep would he carried i his Where, when my aching grows, Where, when I languish, Where, in my need to know, where can I run? Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish? Who, who can understand? He, only One.
heart. Somewhere in the shadows of this great man lived his son, roaming the streets of India like a Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
beggar. Converting to Islam as a rebellion, reconverting to Hinduism as a penance and finally There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
drinking himself to death. Harilal Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s eldest son carried his Gandhi identity Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
as a curse around his neck. Mahatma Gandhi could transform the soul of a nation but could not save Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!
the soul of his own son. The unfolding of a personal tragedy against the racial hatred in South Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Africa and colonial humiliation in India moved me deeply. Finally my search to know the human side When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
of Gandhi took me to Douth Africa, to different parts of India, libraries, scholars and his We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere — your ideal of what you long to attain — the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
immediate family memvers. I then decided to make a film about a principled father and an unfortunate Kwitchyerbellyakin
son. To me, Gandhi beeame a greater human being as he struggled personally, socially and Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
politically, but always put his principles and quest for human dignity above everything else.

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