alright. i'll be the first to say how ignorant i am. brought up in a very pastey white household, we weren't taught many worldly things and the school system was dreadful on that front as well. not blaming anyone, just mentioning how uni-cultural my life was. white, white…white. i didn't know what was out there. i yearned for diversity and leaders unlike those i was taught, but i never saw them. Martin Luther King Jr. for instance. i don't recall ever being taught of his ways. and Mahatma Gandhi, he was just a guy i knew was all about peace and fasting. how wrong I was, or more, just plain ignorant.the past few years i've been diving into these amazing leaders. what their lives were like, what they struggled with, stood for and accomplished. i feel cheated never knowing who these people were. the reason we have Pakistan and India is because of Mahatma Gandhi. India use to be 1 huge country ruled by Britain. filled with Muslims and Hindus, but ruled by the British. until a little Hindu man pushing the scale at 100 lbs. hit the front, talking about freedom. Gandhi fought for financial freedom from Britain, freedom of religion and freedom of British government rule all through non-violence. he never wavered in his unshakable belief in nonviolent protest and religious tolerance. when Muslim and Hindu compatriots committed acts of violence, whether against the British, or against each other, he fasted until the fighting ceased. i'll stop now, but I urge you, if you don't know about Ghandi, go find out. he was amazing.
it makes me realize how sheltered i was. to not know anything about these leaders. if i'm ever blessed wih kids, they will for sure, be learning about all the great leaders of this world.
I leave you with 2 quotes:
'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.' Mahatma Gandhi
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King Jr.
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