Gandhi's Death
Gandhi ultimately became the cause for Indian independence, but he didn't live to enjoy his life's accomplishment as he died the next year. He was killed by a fanatic who believed he was biased towards Muslims. Even after his death, though, his legacy lived on in those he inspired. Gandhi's death garnered attention all over the world as demonstrated by this newspaper from Kansas. |
Tributes to Gandhi
"Great men and eminent men have monuments in bronze and marble set up for them, but this man of divine fire managed in his life-time to become enmeshed in millions and millions of hearts so that all of us became somewhat of the stuff that he was made of, though to an infinitely lesser degree. He spread out over India not in palaces only, or in select places, or in assemblies, but in every hamlet and hut of the lowly and those who suffer. He lives in the hearts of millions and he will live for immemorial ages.
...He has gone, and all over India $here is a feeling of having been left desolate and forlorn. All of us sense that feeling, and I do not know when we shall be able to get rid of it, id yet together with that feeling there is also a feeling of proud thanksgiving that it has been given to us of this generation to be associated with this mighty person. In ages to come, centuries and may be millenniums after us, people will think of this generation when this man of God trod the earth and will think of us who, however small, could also follow his path and probably tread on that holy ground where his feet had been. Let us be worthy of him. Let us always be so."
-Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, First Indian Prime Minister (source: Tribute Detail)
...He has gone, and all over India $here is a feeling of having been left desolate and forlorn. All of us sense that feeling, and I do not know when we shall be able to get rid of it, id yet together with that feeling there is also a feeling of proud thanksgiving that it has been given to us of this generation to be associated with this mighty person. In ages to come, centuries and may be millenniums after us, people will think of this generation when this man of God trod the earth and will think of us who, however small, could also follow his path and probably tread on that holy ground where his feet had been. Let us be worthy of him. Let us always be so."
-Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, First Indian Prime Minister (source: Tribute Detail)
"Mahatma Gandhi will rightly take his place alone in Indian history as a leader who embodied far more than his own religious community's ideas of human brotherhood, of respect for individual conscience, and of supreme self- sacrifice in support of right."
-The London Times
-The London Times
"Gandhi was a great Indian nationalist, but at the same time he was a leader of international stature. His teachings and his actions have left a deep impression on millions of people. As a teacher and leader, his influence made itself felt not only in India, but everywhere in the world and his death brings great sorrow to all peace-loving people. Another giant among men has fallen in the cause of brotherhood and peace. I-know that the peoples of Asia will be inspired by his tragic death to strive with increased determination to achieve the goals of co-operation and mutual trust for which the Mahatma has now given his life."
-President Harry Truman
-President Harry Truman