Gandhi

Indira

Based on interviews and other source material My Truth is a rare and vitally important book; the story of much of Indira Gandhi's life in her own words. First published in India and France in 1980 when Mrs Gandhi was out of power, it now assumes an extra importance in view of her tragic and untimely death. Told simply and warmly, the book unfolds the life of a gifted person born into a remarkable family. There are evocative passages of her recollections of her grandfather and the days spent in Allahabad, of the heroes of her childhood, the books she admired, of Jawaharlal exhorting her to take to physical activities, of holidays in the hills, a dream, like childhood abruptly altered as her father plunged into the freedom movement.

My Truth

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

La voie de la non-violence n'est pas seulement l'apanage des saints et des sages, mais aussi bien de tous les autres hommes. " La non-violence est la loi de notre espèce, comme la violence est la loi de la brute. L'esprit somnole chez la brute qui ne connaît pour toute loi que celle de la force physique. La dignité de l'homme exige d'obéir à une loi supérieure : à la force de l'esprit. " Dans l'histoire de l'humanité, Gandhi est le premier à avoir étendu le principe de la non-violence du plan individuel au plan social et politique.

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