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MARTIN LUTHER King Jr. changed America through a peaceful struggle against oppression. As righteous and audacious as his goal was and remains, the Rev. King's methods also hold special meaning today.
The civil rights movement was a revolution born in nonviolence, in simple civil disobedience, in the ability of human beings to persuade each other to recognize that we are one in our humanity. The movement's principles were reflections of Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of independence for India, but King gave them new life in an American struggle that had often been obstructed by brutality and hatred.
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Nonetheless, the desire to build an international women's movement led some Western feminists to proclaim a global sisterhood that united Western and non- Western women through a common political agenda.3 Over time, many international conferences have staged challenges to a hegemonic Western feminism and facilitated discussions on different approaches to local struggles for women's rights. The decades from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s witnessed this change in women's movements around the globe and in articulations of the feminist agenda, as Peggy Antrobus writes, "from one that has traditionally defined women's issues in terms of domestic violence and reproductive rights to one that sees every issue from the perspective of women and which has taken on broader issues, from militaris...
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With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
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... change is becoming a serious threat to human health by causing various health impacts such as h... north-east Panjub, the former province of India, malaria epidemics increased fivefold in the year ...By limiting movement of foreign and local traders and skilled workers, ...
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The Egyptian uprising teaches us what others learned long ago in Gandhi's India, and what also was learned from the American civil rights movement, and the successful overthrow of autocratic regimes in the Philippines, Indonesia and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s:
The exercise of arbitrary power can always be stopped, once those subjected to it simply refuse to cooperate. The real origin of human freedom lies in the ever-present possibility of massive civil disobedience when people say they just can't take it anymore.