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The day arrived when he stood to
take the oath, at which point the chief
justice ordered him to take off his
turban. Gandhi saw his true limitations
then. He knew that resistance would be
justified, but believed in picking his
battles, so he took off his headgear. His
friends were upset. They said he was
weak, that he should have stood up for
his beliefs. But Gandhi felt that he had
learned “to appreciate the beauty of
compromise.”
If I told you these stories without
mentioning Gandhi’s name and later
achievements, you might view him as a
deeply passive man. And in the West,
passivity is a transgression. To be “passive,”
according to the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary, means to be “acted upon by
an external agency.” It also means to be
“submissive.” Gandhi himself ultimately
rejected the phrase “passive
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