The Gandhi-King Connection: The Legacy Passed On

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by Dr. H.V. Shivadas, D.D. Mohandas K. Gandhi, known to the world as The Mahatma, or 'Great Soul', brought a great gift to the modern world. That gift was the light of Non-Violence, of Service to the Community and of Social Justice. His life served as an example and this light became a torch which illuminated our world and which saved us from our own inhumanity to each other. The torch was carried by many hands. They included Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, the principal of Morehouse College, who returned from India as one of the growing number of African-American disciples of Mahatma Gandhi. When Dr. King entered Morehouse at the age of 15, Mays became one of the great influences in his life. And there, the torch was passed on.  In February of 1959, Dr. King and his wife spent a month in India studying Gandhi’s techniques of nonviolence as the guests of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

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