Re: Martin L. King & Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was one and only one of a generation. This is what people think of him:
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948, two days before the closing date for that year’s Nobel Peace Prize nominations. The Committee received six letters of nomination naming Gandhi; among the nominators were the Quakers and Emily Greene Balch, former Laureates. For the third time Gandhi came on the Committee’s short list – this time the list only included three names – and Committee adviser Seip wrote a report on Gandhi’s activities during the last five months of his life. He concluded that Gandhi, through his course of life, had put his profound mark on an ethical and political attitude which would prevail as a norm for a large number of people both inside and outside India: “In this respect Gandhi can only be compared to the founders of religions.”
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
Yes, In my view with all the controversies and drawbacks, Mahatma Gandhi ranks right besides the founder of religions like Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad Prophet, Nanak.
Controversies are part of the game and life. You name any great historical figure (religious, non religious, thinkers, scientists etc), I can find tons of material on the internet, who would have written against that individual.
He is not called the greatest man since Jesus Christ for nothing.