Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Gandhi, Mahatma. Young India, 13 Mar. 1924.
Keyes was an extreme fundamentalist Christian. Obama was also a religious question but his version of Christianity was not as rigid and extreme as that of Keyes, who was able to determine exactly how Jesus Christ would have voted on every bill before the senate. Obama did not vote for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and he supported the right of a woman to control her own body and have an abortion of she so decided. Obama won in a landslide including getting the vast majority of the religious vote. Keyes maintained that he had not attacked Obama for his own behavior but for the behavior he voted to enable.
Lopez and Elizer were Jews who had escaped the persecution in Portugal to come to America. They and other non-Christians could live and work in Rhode Island but could not vote or hold public office by a previous decision of the Rhode Island Assembly. See {619707}.The Jews had petitioned for their civil rights.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
