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To: definitelynotaliberal
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence... I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.”

“But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....”

“I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.”

--By Gandhi

More here..........

http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm

41 posted on 01/07/2013 3:42:15 PM PST by ravager (I)
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To: ravager

Good to know, and I’m surprised. Thank you for sending it.


43 posted on 01/07/2013 10:42:06 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal
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