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Winston Churchill may have denigrated him as a "naked fakir," but in the end Mohandas K. Gandhi defeated the colonialism for which Churchill stood and led India to independence from the United Kingdom. That monumental political victory was marred by partition and inter-communal violence that broke Gandhi's heart and led a Hindu fanatic to assassinate him for refusing to join in or condone anti-Muslim agitation. But even if he was shot down, his importation of the nonviolent Jain philosophy of ahimsa into Hinduism and his outreach to people of good will of all faiths made Gandhi the most important religious leader of the 20th century --- even though he was a lawyer and activist rather than a member of the clergy --- and his thinking was adapted and applied to the United States by another great leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. Both Winston Churchill and M. K. Gandhi are honored in Panama City, the former by a street in Paitilla and the latter by this bust at the University of Panama and another large statue near the National Assembly's Palacio Justo Arosemena. Photo by Eric Jackson

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