Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
Gandhi, Mahatma. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. 71, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1978, p. 3.
This was a very unusual assertion for Germany where traditionally the Germans had seen themselves as a separate race and often the “master race.” Herder wrote this 50 years before Darwin and 150 years before we had thee scientific proof that race was a meaningless concept and all humans alive today are of the same species. Herder also criticized the historical German persecution of the Jews.
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.