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Conner gradually led Eisenhower to a more advanced level of military study.24 The general introduced his assistant to the writings of the 19th-century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, whose On War remains an influential treatise on warfare. Eisenhower struggled to grasp the military maxims set forth by Clausewitz, so Conner had Eisen
... See moreSteven Rabalais • General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor (The Generals Book 3)
The Arabian Sea lapping up against Dandi's shore is so saline that the satyagrahis of 1930, in order to make salt, had only to pick up the natural deposits that lay drying in tide pools. On the morning of April 6, Gandhi bent over, seized a fistful of muddy salt from the ground, and declared the beginning of "the war against salt tax." Al
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
For ‘the great aim of education,’ said Herbert Spencer, ‘is not knowledge but action.’
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
Arun Gandhi, the Mahatma's grandson, was sixteen years old, born and raised in Durban; he witnessed police "rounding up the African gangs only to let them off at a quieter spot to loot, kill and pillage. Policemen and gangs of white youth also robbed the Indian shops of what they could get after the rioters had broken the windows."
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
“You must first be the change you want to see in this World.”
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
It is better to die fighting for freedom than to rot away in one’s chains, the argument runs. Before I’d be a slave I’d be buried in my grave, And go home to my God And be free!
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited

