Gandhi challenged his followers to be the change which they desired to see in the world.   

Atheist groups, who are fighting the hardest to exclude the cross, are actually, if unwittingly, fighting for the opposite of the religious and intellectual freedom for which they claim to stand.  By fighting against the inclusion of the cross, they turn the important and ongoing fight for their own legitimacy and inclusion into a fight for precisely the kind of exclusion and lack of recognition to which they themselves are regularly subjected in many situations.