Word: gandhi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Morris Lawson Jr., 32, advocates the Gandhi-given tactics of nonviolent protest as a way of life for U.S. Negroes. Lawson does as he teaches. Born in Pennsylvania, he spent most of a year in a federal penitentiary as a conscientious objector, studied with Gandhi during his three years as a student missionary in India. Last June, over the protests of 112 members of the Vanderbilt faculty, Lawson was expelled from the university's divinity school (TIME, June 13, 1960) for advocating civil disobedience to fellow students who took part in Nashville's sit-in campaigns. Lawson...
...realize that he could not stand the sight of blood, decided to become a minister, took his divinity degree at Howard University, but was never ordained. Instead, he went to work for such "social-action causes" as Fellowship of Reconciliation and the N.A.A.C.P. He studied the life of Gandhi, began applying the techniques of nonviolent protest to the situation of U.S.mNegroes. Farmer planned and directed the first busload of Freedom Riders. Married to a white girl, he idealistically aims for more than an end to legal barriers against Negroes: "We want a society of friends...
...breathes into it the only life it has. While much of Brandt's talk is unfit for print, it alone bears repeating. The slashing Mencken tone is nostalgically familiar in such comments as: "All the Spaniards have contributed to the world is hemophilia"; ''Thoreau was a Gandhi in a second-hand suit"; "It is downright unfair to take money from the rich to try to educate the poor, who don't want any education, are puzzled by it, and once they get it, such as they can absorb, use it only to read confession and detective...
Hard-Boiled Self-Sacrifice. Gandhi, who grew up in Jain-strong western India, was particularly influenced by Jainism. But in perfecting the strategy that peacefully defeated Britain in India, Gandhi drew heavily on the New Testament, which awakened him to "the Tightness and value of passive resistance." Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more...
...wise, wily veteran of the ruling Congress Party who ranked second only to Nehru; of a stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head and limbs. He became Nehru's "tower of strength" during such later crises...