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...odds with the wishes of the "silent majority." The "true" leaders are always deemed to be those among the occupied people most willing to say the things the occupiers want to hear. Only once they're defeated can the colonial powers grant due respect to a "rabble rouser" like Mahatma Gandhi or a "terrorist" like Nelson Mandela. (Mandela has improbably been morphed into a pacifist in the American imagination; he was in fact the proud commander of a guerrilla army who got his own military training in Algeria and saw "armed struggle" as an integral component of his campaign against...
...which clearly shows their capabilities as solid songwriters. The whimsical “Au Contraire” may have been better left off the album, but demonstrates the two Johns still have a sense of humor—they sing of a poker game between Jodie Foster, Bach and Mahatma Gandhi. Next is the upbeat “Ant,” whose background horns make it ska-like. Although the trumpet, trombone and tuba add a nice dimension to the song, the band may have gone a little overboard near the end, finishing with rampant woodwind nonsense...
...change you want to see in this world,” she said, echoing the words of Mahatma Ghandi...
TRANSGRESSION Speaking at a fund raiser, the Senator joked that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis...
...CONTRITE? Nauseatingly so. "I have admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi," she said. "I truly regret if a lame attempt at humor suggested otherwise...