#080: True Function of a Lawyer

“I realized that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby— not even money, certainly not my soul.”

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Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's Life in His Own Words (Kindle Locations 462-464). Navajivan Trust. Kindle Edition.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (... 2 October 1869;– 30 January 1948) was anIndianlawyer,[3]anti-colonial nationalist,[4]andpolitical ethicist,[5]who employednonviolent resistanceto lead the successfulcampaign for India's independence fromBritish rule,[6]and in turn inspired movements forcivil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.[7][8] / Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, Gandhi trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi