Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Highlander Folk School

(and what Gandhi really said about change)-the school was founded in the 1930s to help economically disadvantaged whites but by the early 1950s had begun to focus on civil rights. Horton, an admirer of Gandhi, used his school to train his pupils in how to achieve integration and civil rights...


Gandhi didn’t exactly say everything he said (as Yogi Berra might put it), including the ubiquitous ”be the change you wish to see in the world” slogan. But he did say
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do.”
Same sentiment, slightly less bumper stickery. But only slightly. We need not wait. We dare not wait.
The Movement needs a new Highlander School...


(Continues, with video & music, at Up@dawn)

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