Dr. Arun Ghandi teaches nonviolence at SU {Salisbury U, MD}

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By Sara Sutton
Staff Writer

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves," -- Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Gandhi spent almost the entirety of his life fighting for the rights of his people as well as gaining independence from the British for India. His nonviolent way of resistance is legendary, and has influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.

Dr. Arun Gandhi, his grandson, is visiting Salisbury to teach his grandfather's theory of nonviolence and how to implement it into our own lives.

Students at Salisbury University are taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn from a brilliant man who has lived and studied with Mahatma Gandhi himself.

Spending most of his time in the U.S., living in Rochester, New York, Dr. Gandhi heads an "informal teaching institute of nonviolence," he explained. Once a year he travels back to India during the "Gandhi Legacy Tour," where around 30 students and adults from all over the world can travel to India to go and see projects of nonviolence first hand.
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