As If You Were to…
“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ” — Mahatma Gandhi
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India.
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As part of his nonviolent non-cooperation campaign for home rule, Gandhi stressed the importance of economic independence for India. He was assassinated in 1948 by Nathuram Vinayak Godse, who was a right-wing advocate of Hindu nationalism.