Jack DuVall

People Power as Gandhi's Enduring Legacy

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Authors: Jack DuVall

Summary:

Where commands are no longer obeyed, the means of violence are of no use.

One hundred years ago, a mass meeting was convened in Johannesburg, South Africa by Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian lawyer outraged by the government’s proposal that Indians carry registration cards. “The Old Empire Theatre was packed from floor to ceiling,” Gandhi wrote. The group’s most important action was to pass a resolution saying they “solemnly determined not to submit to the Ordinance.”

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