One Effect Of Sustained Conflict Is To

Gandhi Rejects The Adam Smith Notion Of Human Nature As Motivated By Self-interest And Brute Needs And Returns Us To Our Spiritual Dimension With Its Impulses For Nonviolence, Justice And Equality. He Exposes The Fallacy Of The Claim That Everyone Can Be Rich And Successful Provided They Work Hard. He Points To The Millions Who Work Themselves To The Bone And Still Remain Hungry.

To Deny People Of Their Human Rights Is To Challenge Their Very Humanity. To Impose On Them A Wretched Life Of Huger And Deprivation Is To Dehumanize Them. But Such Has Been The Terrible Fate Of All Black Persons In Our Country Under The System Of Apartheid.

That Day, Miss Mdingane Told Me That My New Name Was Nelson. Why She Bestowed This Particular Name Upon Me I Have No Idea. Perhaps It Had Something To Do With The Great British Sea Captain Lord Nelson, But That Would Be Only A Guess.

In Judging Our Progress As Individuals We Tend To Concentrate On External Factors Such As One's Social Position, Influence And Popularity, Wealth And Standard Of Education... But Internal Factors May Be Even More Crucial In Assessing One's Development As A Human Being. Honesty, Sincerity, Simplicity, Humility, Pure Generosity, Absence Of Vanity, Readiness To Serve Others - Qualities Which Are Within Easy Reach Of Every Soul - Are The Foundation Of One's Spiritual Life.

Freedom Is Indivisible; The Chains On Any One Of My People Were The Chains On All Of Them, The Chains On All Of My People Were The Chains On Me.