The Lahore Congress held in December 1908, passed a resolution on South African situation that Gokhale moved.
He paid glowing tributes to Gandhi for his heroic deeds. “Gentlemen, it is one of the privileges of my life that I know Mr. Gandhi intimately and I can tell you that a purer, a nobler, a braver, and a more exalted spirit has never moved on this earth.
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Mr. Gandhi is one of the men, who living an austerely simple life themselves and devoted to all the highest principles of love to their fellow beings and to truth and justice.
Touch the eyes of their weaker brethren as with magic and give them a new vision. He is a man who may be well described as a man among men, a hero among heroes, a patriot among patriots and we may well say that in him Indian humanity at the present time has really reached its high water mark.”