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Non violent, never passive: remembering Gandhi

By Lyn Bender - posted Wednesday, 2 October 2013


"How wonderful it is that no-one need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world". The Franks hid from the Nazis for two years in the 'secret annex' in Amsterdam. The Annex was revealed, and Anna died in a camp in 1945, on the brink of liberation. After the war her father returned and retrieved the diary.

Nelson Mandela reading the diary in prison, has said , 'the lessons of her tragedy sunk deep in our souls, but also encouraged us'.

We can stand by and choose to do nothing or be part of this tradition of resistance against injustice and its violence. With each considered deed, none of us needs to wait.

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In the words of Gandhi "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do. Be the change you want to see."

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Lyn Bender is a psychologist in private practice. She is a former manager of Lifeline Melbourne and is working on her first novel.

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