Bill Text: IL SR0883 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares June 7, 2024 as Global Gandhi Youth Mission Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-25 - Resolution Adopted [SR0883 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0883-Introduced.html
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, On June 7, 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi, who became | ||||||
3 | known the world over as Mahatma Gandhi or Gandhi, was evicted | ||||||
4 | from a train after refusing to give up his first class seat | ||||||
5 | because the compartment was reserved for whites only; and
| ||||||
6 | WHEREAS, Gandhi's experience led to the movement of | ||||||
7 | Satyagraha, which is a peaceful nonviolence resistance on the | ||||||
8 | principles of Ahimsa; and
| ||||||
9 | WHEREAS, Gandhi was a proponent for the principles of | ||||||
10 | Ahimsa as he led and inspired movements for civil rights and | ||||||
11 | freedom across the world; and
| ||||||
12 | WHEREAS, Gandhi adopted nonviolence as a philosophy and an | ||||||
13 | ideal way of life; and
| ||||||
14 | WHEREAS, Gandhi was a leader in India's movement to earn | ||||||
15 | independence from the United Kingdom through the means of | ||||||
16 | using nonviolence, and he subsequently influenced leaders | ||||||
17 | around the world in pursuit of freedom and civil rights, | ||||||
18 | including South African anti-apartheid activist and politician | ||||||
19 | Nelson Mandela and American minister and activist Dr. Martin | ||||||
20 | Luther King Jr.; therefore, be it
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
2 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare June 7, 2024 | ||||||
3 | as "Global Gandhi Youth Mission Day" in the State of Illinois; | ||||||
4 | and be it further
| ||||||
5 | RESOLVED, That we encourage others to be the change they | ||||||
6 | want to see in the world; and be it further
|