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            The Millennium Declaration commits the international community and member states of the U. to the achievement of eight major goals. Two of these goals are the eradication of hunger and poverty and the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. The third problem I will be discussing is the advancement of democratic governance throughout the world. Although quantitative targets have already been made for the eradication of poverty and promotion of women's rights have already been defined, I feel Gandhi's nonviolence thoughts may help reach these goals more quickly. .
             The Millennium Development Goals the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP advocates for these nationally-owned solutions and helps to make them effective through ensuring a greater voice for poor people, expanding access to productive assets and economic opportunities, and linking poverty programs with countries' international economic and financial policies. At the same time, UNDP contributes to efforts at reforming trade, debt relief and investment arrangements to better support national poverty reduction and make globalization work for poor people. (www.undp.org).
             Gandhi states on page 118 that "According to me the economic constitution of India and for that matter of world, should be such that no one under it should suffer from want of food and clothing. In other words, everybody should be able to get sufficient work to enable him to make the two ends meet. And this ideal can be universally realized only if the means of production of the elementary necessaries of life remain in the control of the masses. These should be freely available to all as God's air and water are or ought to be; they should not be made a vehicle of traffic for the exploitation of others.


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1. Movie Essay: Ghandi

Movie Essay: Gandhi Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence stems from the pacifist views. According to the text, Exploring Religious Meaning, pacifism is one of three distinct positions taken by Christians on war and violence. It consists of absolutely no violence or participation in physical war struggles and brutality. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary defines pacifism as, "the belief that war and violence are morally unjustified" (565). Throughout the film, it is obvious that Gandhi follows and promotes the pacifist views as he turns away from violence and encourages the Indians to protest through ...

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2. Ghandi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay When I was 19 I WENT abroad to study. I studied law at University College in London. . Fellow students USE TO snuB ME because I was an Indian. In MY lonely hours I studied philosophy. In MY reading I discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and I was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. In 1891 I returned to India. Unsuccessful in Bombay, I went to ...

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3. Ghandi and the quest for peace

During the late nineteenth century there was a raging debate within Southeast Asia as to handle their relationship with Great Britain. Most of them were experiencing direct European political control for the first time. There was a broad upsurge of anti-European sentiment, influenced greatly by Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948). This extraordinary figure drew the Indian masses into the nationalist movement. His belief in embracing satyagraha, or "soul force," helped seek social justice through passive resistance. He also embraced a moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence (ahimsa) (B & Z, pg. 1...

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4. Civil Rights Movement

... King, Jr., was an important figure that worked hard throughout the 60's in order to gain black Americans' civil rights. In 1959, King went to India where he studied Ghandi's techniques of nonviolence. Sit-in movements began in Greensboro and soon followed many others throughout the country. King was arrested in October of 1960 at a major Atlanta department store. The charges on ... , would be sent to downtown Na! shville sit-in sites. Lawson was much like Martin Luther King, Jr.; he wet to India as a missionary and studied the philosophy of nonviolence with disciples of Ghandi (Adams 49)...

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5. malcolm x marting luther king

... in Atlanta, Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania and Boston University. At Crozer, he decided to study ministry. He took note of Mahatma Ghandi's non-violent strategy of social change during university. King married and on completion of his studies at Boston University, became the pastor of Dexter ... Blacks at Lincoln Memorial. He was invited to West Africa for the celebration of Ghana's independence. In an effort to raise his understanding of Ghandi's beliefs, in 1959 he visited India. SCLC began to teach students about the passive resistance technique in hope that they ...

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6. Civil Rights

... King, Jr., was an important figure that worked hard throughout the 60's in order to gain black Americans' civil rights. In 1959, King went to India where he studied Ghandi's techniques of nonviolence. Sit-in movements began in Greensboro and soon followed many others throughout the country. King was arrested in October of 1960 at a major Atlanta department store. The charges on ... State, would be sent to downtown Nashville sit-in sites. Lawson was much like Martin Luther King, Jr.; he wet to India as a missionary and studied the philosophy of nonviolence with disciples of Ghandi (Adams...

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7. Martin Luther King Jr.

... the civil rights environment, just living life was a bit harsh at times, being threatened on numerous accounts as well as having his house blown up. He still continued to practice nonviolence. In 1957 King Jr. formed a group with other fellow black leaders called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and moved to Atlanta. And in 1958 book that He wrote called ... the Stride Toward Freedom and while he was on tour for his book a black female stabbed him with a letter opener. After that incident he visited India the home of Ghandi. Ghandi had a powerful influence on King Jr....

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8. Martin luther king, jr.

Martin Luther King Known as one of the most effective advocates of nonviolence and direct action as a method of social reform, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929. King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church, much ... where he studied his trademark action, non-violent protest as an effective social reform. He became an expert of the life and work of Mahatma Ghandi, and patterned his own life, much like that of Mahatma Ghandi. King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the position to be a pastor, like his father, at Dexter A...

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9. Transcending Class - Rebellion and Activism

... history and within the last few decades. The more familiar examples are the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. in opposition to Jim Crow legislation, protest in India by Mahatma Ghandi that inspire the nonviolence movement in the U.S., and union strikes that take place today (that represent the working American middle class). For instance, take the Birmingham Bus System Boycott led by Rosa ... ...

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