# Who will the next Ghandi be?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 11, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-next-ghandi-be/228750 "2004-02-11T23:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![dal\_timgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@dal\_timgar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dal_timgar)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-next-ghandi-be/228750/21 "2004-02-14T17:46:31Z")

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The internet is the way to spread new ideas now.

Who is putting new ideas there?

Dal Timgar

> [@Stimpy](#):
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> I recently watched Sir Richard Attenborough’s epic Ghandi, and got to wondering who the next great man of our time will be? (give or take a decade - Ghandi certainly wasn’t during my time, but his movie was!)  
> Is there anyone in the running? Nelson Mandela of course. Anyone else? I realize Michael Jackson’s firlmy out of the race now…

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-next-ghandi-be/228750/22 "2004-02-14T21:18:23Z")

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> I predict a blond haired teen with a bad heart and a shadowy companion… 😉

I believe that this is either a movie or literature reference, but I have no idea of what. Can someone clarify?

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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-next-ghandi-be/228750/23 "2004-02-16T06:36:04Z")

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> [@hebesphenomegacorona](#):
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> I believe that this is either a movie or literature reference, but I have no idea of what. Can someone clarify?

[Not quite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4289265&postcount=28)

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-next-ghandi-be/228750/24 "2004-02-16T08:51:50Z")

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> [@furt](#):
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> Oh, there were spiritual elements in the fall of the Iron Curtain; Walesa was/is a devout Catholic and Havel is a definitely a very spiritual man. ([This](http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/havelspeech.html) is an interesting speech). They are absolutely on a par with Mandela and Gandhi.

I nominate Karol Wojtyla (sic, probably)- the pope. Yes, he’s pretty irrelevant now, but so was Gandhi within a few months of Independence and Partition. The pope arguably had more to do with the restoration of individual freedoms in the Soviet Union, and the democratization thereof than Havel or Walesa.

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