1. He was a huge racist.
In his younger years, Gandhi worked as an attorney for Indian traders in South Africa, while promoting racial segregation against black citizens. His most telling quote is when he says that “Kaffirs” (the equivalent of the “N-word”) are people “whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
