Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00013)

nos wrote:

> Patriotism...Nationalism.... The anti-thesis of theosophy.
> 
> Fortunately MOST of the youth see through MOST of it.

"Be true, be loyal to your pledges, to your sacred duty, to your
country, to your own conscience".
K.H.

"You pride yourself on not being a patriot - I DO NOT - for, in learning
to love one's own country one but learns to love humanity the more".
K.H.

Further:

"I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and
violence, I would advise violence. ..... I would rather have India
resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a
cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own
dishonor." 
Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
Gandhi (in his autobiography) "My Experiments with Truth"

Michele