Mahatma Gandhi

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• Mahatma Gandhi was a pioneer in the philosophy of seeking truth and opposing evil through active, non-violent resistance.
• Mahatma Gandhi was married at the age of 13 through an arranged marriage by his parents.
• Mahatma Gandhi actively encouraged the British to recruit Indians to fight against the Zulus in the Zulu War, which started in 1906.
• Mahatma Gandhi declared that India could not be a party to war against Nazi Germany being fought for democratic freedom, since that freedom was denied to India.
• Mahatma Gandhi was shot and killed in 1948 while taking his nightly walk.
• Mahatma Gandhi wrote his autobiography which he entitled - The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
• Mahatma Gandhi felt tremendous guilt because he was making love to his wife in another room when his father passed away. He refered to this as 'double shame'.
• The above Gandhi image is courtesy of www . Emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html .