These are such deep words from someone who really made a positive difference. His conviction and perseverance is an example that many, including myself, look up to and admire. In many ways what the world needs now more than ever are people like him.

Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Utilizing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the globe. He lived a modest life in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food and also did long fasts as a means of self-purification and on political protests.

With his book Hind Swaraj in 1909, Gandhi declared that British rule was established in India with the co-operation of Indians and had survived only because of this co-operation. If Indians refused to co-operate, British rule would collapse. In February 1919, Gandhi cautioned the Viceroy of India with a cable communication that if the British were to pass the Rowlatt Act, he will appeal Indians to start civil disobedience.

Gandhi gained the leadership of the Congress in 1920 and began making demands, until on January 26th, 1930, the Indian National Congress declared independence for India. The British Empire did not recognize that declaration, but began negotiations. Gandhi was famous for leading Indians to challenge the British-imposed salt tax with the 250 mile Dandi Salt March that year.

The Congress took more a role in provincial government in the late 1930s. Both Gandhi and the Congress withdrew their support of the Raj when the Viceroy declared war on Germany in September 1939 without consultation. Tensions escalated until Gandhi demanded immediate independence in 1942 and the British responded by imprisoning him and tens of thousands of Congress leaders. He called for Britain to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years on many occasions in both South Africa and India. After decades of Gandhi's persistence, finally in August 1947 Britain granted India their independence.

Gandhi battled the status quo in his day both politically and peacefully to help win independence for India. We can follow his example in new ways by collectively using Blockchain technology, along with AI (Artificial Intelligence), to enable more independence and freedom for all humanity.

These new disruptive technologies offer solutions to the existing financial system, which can achieve the change we dream of in many ways that benefit everyone. It provides the capability of evolving the entire global financial system into a new distributed storage and exchange of value that humanity has never seen before. More specifically, it could be used to flip things around from the current debt based system of scarcity into a resourced based system of abundance, where the new paradigm becomes giving to one another in ways that fosters real freedom, peace, brotherly love and respect. The question is are we ready for this change? To CHANGE or Not to Change - That is the question.