Chapter Notes

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Chapter Notes

All Men Are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as Told in His Own Words. Ed. K Kripalani (Paris: UNESCO, 1969), 162.

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The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by `Abdu'l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912 (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982), 300.

3

Paris Talks: Addresses given by `Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris in 1911-1912 (London: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1972), 182.

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All Men Are Brothers, 162.

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All Men Are Brothers, 160.

6

Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá (Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 1978), 302.

7

The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 134.

8

Paris Talks, 133.

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All Men Are Brothers, 160.

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The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 182.

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`Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted in J. E. Esslemont, Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era, 5th rev. ed. (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1987), 149.

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Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá, 123-24.

13

See The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 133-137.

14

All Men Are Brothers, 161.

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Gandhi found in his personal life that it was through according greater rights to his wife that he was able to earn his wife's heartfelt respect. He tried to practice what he preached about equality, and had little patience for sexual hypocrisy: ``If I were born a woman, I would rise in rebellion against any pretension on the part of man that woman is born to be his plaything. I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart. I could not steal into my wife's heart until I decided to treat her differently than I used to do, and so I restored to her all her rights by dispossessing myself of all my so-called rights as her husband.'' See All Men Are Brothers, 161.

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