The Great Soul
To a world torn apart by wars and violence, Mahatma Gandhi gave a new powerful weapon -- that of non-violence which other leaders like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela etc followed.To read about this great leader visit 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln was a great president during the Civil War. He was against slavery and all the things the war was about and later died for his views. Born into poverty and self taught this man envisions everything the United States stands for. His story is one that shows that in this country anyone can become president. to read about this great leader who abolished slavery and made world better place to live visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

 

 

While Winston Churchill is best remembered as a statesman, politician and world leader who saved the world from Nazi domination in the dark days of 1940, throughout his life he cared for his family and sustained his lifestyle through use of the pen.  His books and speeches were numerous and, generally, memorable and have led to a plethora of quotes and witticisms from which one might be able to select just the right quote for almost any occasion.

In this section, we present many of his most memorable and well known Speeches, Stories and Quotes, as well as some that are not so well known.  We also include a special section entitled "Quotes Falsely Attributed".  As one who wrote and spoke so much and across a wide spectrum of subjects and interests, he has often been cited as the source of many quotes that, while he might like to have said them, he quite simply did not.To read more enter http://www.winstonchurchill.org

"I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

"Why is it that in this courtroom I am facing a white magistrate, confronted by a white prosecutor, escorted by white orderlies? Can anybody honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced? Why is it that no African in the history of this country has ever had the honor of being tried by his own kind, by his own flesh and blood?...I am a black man in a white man's court. This should not be." (Finlayson 84).

"Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud... We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination. Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another... The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement To read more enter http://www.nelsonmandela.org/