If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'. There must be a conquest - [audience claps] - please, please, please. That will interfere with my speech, and that will interfere with your understanding also. I want to capture your hearts and don't want to receive your claps. Let your hearts clap in unison with what I'm saying, and I think, I shall have finished my work. Therefore, I want you to go away with the thought that Asia has to conquer the West. Then, the question that a friend asked yesterday, 'Did I believe in one world?' Of course, I believe in one world. And how can I possibly do otherwise, when I become an inheritor of the message of love that these great un-conquerable teachers left for us? You can redeliver that message now, in this age of democracy, in the age of awakening of the poorest of the poor, you can redeliver this message with the greatest emphasis.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Gandhi urges the audience to embrace love and truth as a way for Asia to spiritually conquer the West rather than through force.
- In plain terms
- Spread love and truth instead of clapping, and let the world become one through these values.
- What can you take from it?
- Love and truth are the most powerful tools for global unity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How can love conquer a nation?
- What does it mean to inherit a message of love?
Another view
Abstract ideals like love may not solve immediate political conflicts.
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