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No Nobel Prize for Mahatma Gandhi - Naresh Kadyan


World  (tags: ethics, HumanRights, politics, society, freedoms, world )

Kadyan
- 71 days ago - nobelprize.org
Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948. Decades later however, the Nobel Committee publicly declared its regret for the omission. When the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989
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angel s. (17)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 2:38 am
one of the reasons why gandhi wasnt awarded the peace prize was because all the violence and killings his success in the indian movement brought, with the partition of pakistan. if we use the same analysis, jesus brought untold misery and suffering with all the torture, killings that were brought in his name by many terrorist organizations in earlier times, one of the most active being the catholic church with its famous inquisition.
 

Litha Moon (106)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 4:25 am
I doubt, that very many people of colour were winning back then...that is why we live in exciting time, men of any colour can win or rise to be the most powerful man on the planet...
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (268)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 5:07 am
Angel S... one must remmeber it was man that did the killings not Jesus.. he loved us so much he gave his life for us... Jesus was aman of love and kindness, patience and all the good things in life.. One cannot associate these things that man did... the same thing with Gandhi.. he came in peace and it was other men that decided on a different course... Remeber the devil will always come in a steal someone else's thunder adn then the good people get blamed.. I just say this in love.. no offence
 

Just Carole (429)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 8:50 am

 
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION:
 
No Nobel Prize for Mahatma Gandhi
 
 

Carolyn T. (235)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:10 am
Noted and was certainly eager to lend my advocacy/signature to this worthy petition. Thank you, Naresh and Carole.
 

Sally G. (157)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:33 am
signed I think
 

dgyps Jack (11)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:28 am
The shift in consciousness in the war-ing world of Mahatma's day is unprecedented...or is equal to tne message of our now The Holiness Dalai Lama...and both have now been silenced by the Dark masters of war. It IS time for Gandhi to be assigned to the Nobel pantheon. Yes.
 

Rhonda Maness (466)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:32 am
Thank you for signing the petition "No Nobel Prize for Mahatma Gandhi - Sukanya Naresh Kadyan"
Thanks Kaydan
 

Ge ARACELI (82)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:12 pm

I THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE HERE KAYDAN...
AND YES THE OTHERS WHO CONTACTED ME... THANK YOU ALL.

GHANDI, HE DESERVES RESPECT FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE SPENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS.

KAYDAN... I HOPE A LINK I HAVE GIVEN TODAY WILL HELP BRING PEOPLE
TO CONSIDER
PERHAPS IT IS RIGHT TO WRITE TO THE NOBEL COMMITTEE FOR GHANDI
HE WORKED FOR PEACE IN INDIAN TO CAUSE BRITAIN TO CEASE CRUELTY TO PEOPLE
AND SO MUCH MORE
HE WORKED FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS
AND
HE ASKED HITLER TO CEASE WW2
IN A LETTER HE WROTE TO HITLER

http://www.care2.com/news/member/582509077/1272897

NAMASTE
 

lach veronica (847)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 2:28 pm
THANKS FOR CREATHING THIS PETITION, KAYDAN, BLESSED BE
 

Shirley H. (35)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 2:54 pm
That is unbelievable.
Shirley H.
 

Mary Donnelly (9)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 3:05 pm
A problem may arise here, the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, hence some people have not received a Nobel Prize because they died before it was awarded.
 

Just Carole (429)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 3:07 pm

Thank you, Mary . . . I believe that's why the petition is requesting that the rules be amended.
 

Animalib B. (81)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 4:34 pm
I very surprised that he has not been awarded the Nobel Prize.
 

roseann S. (207)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 5:07 pm
Ghandi's peacefull rebellion against the British was the reason he was not bestowed the Nobel Prize.In this time the British were one of the 'top dogs' and it would have been 'polictically incorrect' to grant him this prestigious accolade by the N.P committee.Consequently,this was was unfair to Ghandi who was instrumental in creating a peaceful transition of democratic 'independence' in India.What's more important such a man like Ghandhi he had absolute recognition by people all over the world and thus,amplify his 'greatness' even more than the N.Prize title.
 

Roopa Sharma (6)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:12 pm
agree with mary donnelly and roseann.S.
 

David Buchan (162)
Monday October 12, 2009, 1:42 am
#2? :-)
 

Jocelyn Koopmann (88)
Monday October 12, 2009, 3:34 am
Noted. I have signed thank you Naresh, also forwarded to my friends at Change.org I will forward this to my friends here as well.
 

Joycey B. (699)
Monday October 12, 2009, 5:41 am
Signed,#160. Thanks Naresh.

Thank you for signing the petition "No Nobel Prize for Mahatma Gandhi - Sukanya Naresh Kadyan"
 

Jim Phillips (2588)
Monday October 12, 2009, 6:13 am
Petition signed.

Mohandas Gandhi certainly does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

TY, Kadyan.
.
 

Elvira Arias (8)
Monday October 12, 2009, 6:14 am
He is so big!!! he doent need it!!!!!
I dont believe in that prizes...remember who invented the Dynamite (It was invented by Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in 1866 in Krümmel (Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), and patented in 1867) Alfred Nobel...all that money from destruction...the dynamite is more use for damage than beneficial for our mother earth ( Pachamama) especially in our seas and rivers...they use tha dynamite to "fish" killin every life...

But I agree that's unfairy to ignore Mahatma Gandhi for that human prize...but i certanly say that in ours souls and hearts when we think of peace we think on him...excuse my poor english i hope i made myself underestood
 

Ge ARACELI (82)
Monday October 12, 2009, 7:42 am
The race of mankind would perish
did they cease to aid each other.

We cannot exist without mutual help.

All therefore that need aid
have a right to ask it from their fellow-men;
and no one
who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter Scott

PEACE...namaste
 

THEODORE S. (12)
Monday October 12, 2009, 9:54 am
SIGNED, THANKS EUREKA WHO INVITE ME.
 

Julie van Niekerk (136)
Monday October 12, 2009, 12:15 pm
Gandhi earned the Nobel price over and over.
 

suzanne o. (32)
Monday October 12, 2009, 12:25 pm
my signature failed , maybe because of address & state & postal code not in usa , although i have signed sometimes on the change.org - but sometimes error messages.
the nobel peace prize - this is not so purely perfect always , sometimes they get prizes , but many things have not been done , some minor details never ever seem to get done - .
but obviously he should have a peace prize .
 

Julie van Niekerk (136)
Monday October 12, 2009, 12:28 pm
Oops, I mean Nobel peace prize. Sorry, sometimes my words are wrong. I remember years ago that I said to friends ( we wanted to start a small business)that I will prefer to be a "sleeping partner", instead of "silent partner."
 

Cynthia Davis (248)
Monday October 12, 2009, 1:41 pm
People talk about how awful Obama is for offering a hand to Muslims. If Obama was wrong in doing this as they say. I wonder how they feel about Gandhi writing to Hitler.

As at Wardha,
C. P.,
23-7-'39

Dear friend,

Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth.

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to a savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.

I remain,

Your sincere friend

M. K. Gandhi

HERR HITLER
BERLIN
GERMANY.
 

David F. (0)
Monday October 12, 2009, 2:09 pm
Julie:

Hear, hear! Well stated.

Dave
 

Cynthia Davis (248)
Monday October 12, 2009, 6:38 pm
Signed Petition TY Just
 

Phyllis P. (404)
Monday October 12, 2009, 7:47 pm
noted, signed, and well deserved.
 

Denise Tankha (24)
Thursday October 15, 2009, 1:08 pm
Everyone knows that Gandhiji did not receive the Nobelbecause of the dictats of the then British Empire. The carhage that occured after India gained Independence was by no means his fault. he never wanted the country to be partitioned.
Any way as Alvira so wisely pointed out getting a Nobel doesn't really mean anything for a man of Gandhiji's stature.
 

Kadyan Naresh (683)
Thursday October 15, 2009, 7:43 pm
Big Question mark on Nobel prize?????????????? Why Gandhi was ignored????????????? Pick and choose.......double standard, Is in it??????????
 

Suzanna van der Voort (220)
Sunday November 22, 2009, 6:47 am
I used my own address in the Netherlands, but had to cheat with my State. I choose NE (Netherlands) and I tried using my Zip and then 00000. I forgot when I was successful...please try!
I received this confirmation:
"Suzanna van der Voort Maastricht, Netherlands
Sent letter to Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil (THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA) "
 
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