Integrity seems to be in decline

August 4, 2010
By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News (Guam)

There was a man thrown off a train in South Africa because he had a first-class ticket but refused to move to a third-class coach; beaten by a stagecoach driver for refusing to travel on the foot board to make room for a European passenger; barred from hotels; ordered by a court magistrate to remove his turban. And on and on.

After fighting for justice for Indians in South Africa, he returned to India in 1951, and fought for India's independence from the British Empire.

He was India's great political and spiritual leader, Mahatma Ghandi.

Among those who followed Gandhi's ways and philosophy were South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, and the slain American civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

They put their lives on the line fighting for great causes through nonviolence. They upheld the highest principles with utmost integrity. Sadly, in our contemporary world, those values seem to be in decline.
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