Mohandas K. Gandhi, the 20th-century pioneer of nonviolent social change, would have been 145 years old this year. A major new Menil Collection exhibition illustrates how he was a man for all ages.

A native of India, Gandhi was a London-trained lawyer who fought discrimination in South Africa for 20 years before he returned home about 100 years ago to teach his philosophy of satyagraha - "soul force" or "truth force" - promoting nonviolent resistance against colonial depredations and the caste system.