Gandhi’s life spoke to me, an idealistic youth, and it did so with both moral authority and humor: the image of Gandhi meeting with the impeccably uniformed representative of His Majesty’s government while draped in simple, traditional garb? This upstart behavior — if you thought about it — was entirely reminiscent of those difficult colonials circa 1774.
The connection was more than serendipitous. Gandhi’s attraction to America’s past was explicit, as he noted in 1907: “I actually took the name of my movement from Thoreau’s essay, ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.’ ” (From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY )
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