Slavery was technically a legal institution and could thus be ended in the legislature. People were slaves because the law said so.
The caste system is not JUST a legal system, it didn't even BEGIN as a legal system. It is a tenet of their religion and social system. People are untouchables because their society and religion say so. What the law says won't MATTER if people think that it isn't proper or right.
And please say why you resent cannonized? I was not using it in the Catholic sense (like they are REALLLLY going to make a saint of a HINDU- please!), merely to indicate that Gandhi is pretty much Universally loved. He is. Everyone except you likes Gandhi.
ETA: That cannonized thing really bugs. I'm not even Catholic, lol. Excuse me for having a large vocabulary.
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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
I resent you for the Cannonized comment. Stop forcing your religion on me. Slavery was ended in one generation. It had aftermath to be sure, but it was legally ended by the 14th amendment.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
Last edited by lovelyivy84; 09-04-2003 at 09:58 PM.
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