mays met ghandi, he was going to india on the international ymca movement.his allowed the freedom to go and travel. now, i want to put this a little bit quick context, india, south africa was still under british imperialism and one of the ways you could go was to say you had religious duties to do, or to carry out and mays travelled under that us auspices so he could meet leaders. in 1937, mays went to india but travelled through what we now call the middle east or the near-east, however one wants to geographically put this. this opened up a huge world to him. one, he interviewed gandhi for 90 minutes, he wrote about extensively in newspapers, and secondly, he also was traveling because he understood that christianity was a global religion itself. christianity in and of itself had internal divisions. baptists believe they were landmarkian, they had their believes, mays was traveling in the context of trying to look at christianity itself as a global religion and also to begin -- his first forays in hinduism and islam. the other thing i want to add about this

thurman saw in ghandi that which was transformative because gandhi was a disciple of truth. i truly believe if we are serious in studying thurman, one of the insights for us in this 21st century will be ways in which we can engage pluralism with celebration rather than trepidation. he said perhaps the only hope for the world, for community, is religion. which seems odd in light of the fact we know how religious people can go at one another, but i think what he was leading us to is the oneness that can be found in religion, that transcends the political and the social and the personal rhetoric that divides. i think there is a key for us and it's worth the interfaith journey. >> third and definitely not last is dr. preston king. dr. king was born in albany georgia and earned his bachelor of arts from fisk university, his master of science and a doctorate of philosophy from the london school of economics. he lived abroad for nearly 40 years and was also educated at the university of vienna straussburg and paris. i want to mention he was in exile for 40 years. he's one of the he

and ghandi, do you think issa? >> i did not know he knew those personalities.has generated no idea, none of their ideas nor has he acted as if he's aware of their philosophy. in any committee, not just this one, it's really ironic, it must be something they get that the they practice. what we find it seems to me that in every committee they start off the day looking for something to bash the president about. that's all this is about. i guess that they have instructions from senator mcconnel that the first priority is to defeat the president so no matter what he does they make an issue of it. >> with direct reference to that after the president's compromise measure last week, senator roy blunt is adding an amendment has told the heritage foundation that the language is intentionally broad to allow for current and future concerns regarding religious freedom. doesn't that mean if an employer believes solely say in faith healing, they can refuse to pay for any federally mandated health care service whether it's maternity care or diabetes testing? >> it's totally ag

when you look at someone like ghandi, it's a gentleness, a tough gentleness that is something that we find. i hope i'm in the -- i might -- before i go into the grave see a world which is more gentle, which is more caring, which is more sharing. in our country, we have an expression that a mother can share even the eye of a fly. women, generally, are those who nurture, who bring to life, and who hold life together. and for goodness sake, let's -- we have tried for centuries, we have made a mess. let -- let them try out. >> all right. >>. [ applause ] >> prime minister. >> so i think that it's been expressed, i would like to ada poi -- add, a point, if women which a chance to be leadsers. the first thing on the area of the female don't have, the first and another thing that the social -- you will see the world has someone who is caring. and caring about the children or kids, this is a good combination between male and female and

. >> reporter: he was openly gay, he was a quaker traveled to india studied with ghandi's followers hadund influence on martin luther king. >> dr. king was equipped with a theoretical knowledge of nonviolence, book learning if you will and byard because of all the experiences and demonstrations really knew how to do hands on organizing. >> we have effective civil rights legislation. >> reporter: he was the fiery activist who organized the successful march on washington he was also a true renaissance man. >> in addition to his advocacy he was an accomplished singer musician, a creative chef. >> reporter: he took up the movement and gave up the arts the women's movie yum celebration of -- museum celebration was called voices out loud. >> what is different about me, didn't settle if given the choice i would wear an entirely different face to my job interviews but this is the face i got and no amount of make up hide it is fact that i am the son of slaves. >> decent housing is as great as education. >> reporter: his partner said he fought against poverty injustice and inequality still a part

like martin luther king, jr., who think like the great progressives and humanists and think like ghandi do not think like ayn rand, who do not think about selflessness and greed and self and richmond, the actually think about community and helping people who can't or won't take care of themselves. for the folks like us, we have allowed ourselves to be erased. we are not even in the discussion. they talk about the center. well, they left out -- it was like the bird without a right wing. and i said that's our fault. below these debates to go on and to be defined so that my clients are out of the picture. they are not even counted in the census anymore and they are not counted and unemployment statistics. so i wrote this book to explain to my friends and the: journalists that find the poverty ignoring people at the bottom of the economic scale and system where they died young and great-grandchildren will face it he said, for in afghanistan but he said i didn't know this was in our background. it. normal. but i'm very proud of my family. i'm very proud of my family. thought that he was pois

ghandi good diet, rosa parks, died, they were not there by themselves, their living by themselves. then we said well let's get these young individuals together and try to make them understand this thing called the olympic movement is 15 minutes in the sun for any individual to go to the olympics to have 15 minutes. if i ask most of you who run the mall with the last olympics, and you couldn't tell me. if i asked you who is the 100-meter winner, you couldn't tell me. so you have 15 minutes. so we decided to get this feeling going let's get on this train and have some discussion. well i don't know about the boycott and i promised my church i was going to win. praying too hard, i of the mother is expecting me to when i can't give of my opportunity and we said all we want to try to do is have some dialogue so we can have some exchange and what you can do greater in that 15 minutes. okay, i'm willing to do that so we get on this hypothetical train and start rolling down the tracks. now all the people outside of the train are yelling at bald bless america. make sure you bring home the go

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>> well, i happen to agree with ghandi said. practice and vr studied koran at harvard and princeton both, i think it's an extension of the heritage and why not simply accept it publicly rather than holding it privately. that's the only thing that makes me a muslim, actually. >> so you were interested in becoming a muslim before you even went to iran? >> it's not that i feel like i've become a muslim. i don't feel any more muslim than i am jewish or christian. i worship the same god i always have. my purpose in this sense is to help explain islam to americans and to the west to let them see that it's not a religion of -- ali, one of our favorite boxers of all time is a muslim, but there's a lot of phobia and i think it's important for me to accept that as well as my other beliefs in christianity and bridge that. >> what is it that you want people to have a better understanding about islam that you think you will be better equipped to convey? >> i don't think i'm better equipped than anyone else to convey it. but it's important be

they did it through condi -- ghandi. all of the people they had in common. they had to pay a tax on assault. instead of paying that tax they marched down to the scene and they collected salt and made their own salt. we are told to go out and organize, but around what? we need something to organize around. we need to fd that thing that the 99% signof us believe in. is there a march? no. boyct the one thing to prove our strength. we are the 99%. >> hello, everybody. we are one world corp. for cooperation. this is beyond our borders. it is global. we have the power thanks to labor across the world. i think right here there is a lot of elders and all of these young people who have been representing us. they deserve a round of applause and more support. yeah. need to give them our homes our backyards habitat. arby's are in decline. we have the resources, most of us. if we have to shame the corporations into a saving the world, we will. if they want to continue to do criminal acts and put the truth tellers in jail, we need to stand up for them and go to a bank whe