Essay - Dinner with Mahatma Gandhi if I Could Have Dinner with...

Dinner with Mahatma Gandhi

If I could have dinner with anyone, alive or dead, it would most definitely be Mohandas K Gandhi.

***** turned the world upside down in the most violent fashion: without the use of any violence at all. He grew up in an *****ndia unjustly ruled by the British, who had simply invaded and colonized and controlled the lives of hundreds of millions of people thousands of miles away from their rel*****ively tiny land.

The British treated the Indians as slaves and reinforced racial stereotypes every day they kept control ***** the subcontinent. They created areas for themselves and did not allow ***** in their cantonement districts.

Gandhi grew up amongst this and knew he ***** to make a ch*****nge. ***** studied ***** become a l*****wyer ***** first practiced in South Africa, w*****re he fought apartheid. Realizing that he must help his own people too, he re***** to India and started a freedom movement, unique in the Earth's history in that it was non-violent. He and his followers simply resisted the British; they did not fight them.

Gandhi led the simplest life; dressed only in a lo*****cloth, with no possessions. He encouraged self-sufficiency and education, and started the homespun wool movement. He even showed foresight in foreign policy: When Hitler ***** World War II, Gandhi actually halted the ********** ***** *****, and asked the Indians to support the British rather than take advantage of ***** weakness. His theory - correct ***** ***** that Hitler was a much more evil foe. The ***** could be dealt with later.

I'd want to eat with ***** so I ***** learn from where he derived ***** passion, his non-violent bent, his perseverance and ***** love for *****ndia. I'd also want to learn ***** he learned his magnanimity: He was eventually assassinated by his own people beca***** he gave ***** much ***** ***** Pakistan, India's sworn enemy, because he believed that both countries were brothers.

We all ***** a lot to learn from Gandhi.

Take Martin Luther King, Jr, for instance, who based his entire movement on ********** work on n*****-violence. I'd like to start learning over dinner.

***** hope that after a meal with this legend, I'd be able to take his *****s and ***** my corner of the