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So why is he not Person of the Century? He was, after all, TIME's Man of the Half-Century in 1950. Well, the passage of time can alter our perspective. A lot has happened since 1950. It has become clear that one of the great themes of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

In a century marked by brutality, Gandhi perfected a different method of bringing about change, one that would turn out (surprisingly) to have more lasting impact. The words he used to describe it do not translate readily into English: Satyagraha (holding firmly onto the deepest truth and soul-force) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Gandhi's life of civil disobedience began while he was a young lawyer in South Africa when, because he was a dark-skinned Indian, he was told to move to a third-class seat on a train even though he held a first-class ticket. He refused, and ended up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

King, who began studying Gandhi in college, was initially skeptical about the Mahatma's faith in nonviolence. But by the time of the Montgomery bus boycott, he later wrote, "I had come to see early that the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Let's start with medicine. In 1928 the young Scottish researcher Alexander Fleming sloppily left a lab dish growing bacteria on a bench when he went on vacation. It got contaminated with a Penicillium mold spore, and when he returned, he noticed that the mold seemed to stop the growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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