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Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma (“Great Soul”), pioneered nonviolent civil disobedience as a lawyer in South Africa, opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. In 1915 he returned to India and organized nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women’s rights, end caste discrimination, and ultimately gain independence from British rule. Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu nationalist in 1948 at the age of seventy-eight.
There are two ways of countering injustice. One way is to smash the head of the man who perpetrates injustice and to get your own head smashed in the process. All strong people in the world adopt this course. Everywhere wars are fought and millions of people are killed.
March 2017I have been practicing with scientific precision nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. I have applied it in every walk of life — domestic, institutional, economic, and political. I know of no single case in which it has failed.
October 2011I do not want to be reborn. But if I have to be reborn, I should be born an untouchable, so that I may share their sorrows, sufferings, and affronts levelled at them, in order that I may endeavour to free myself and them from that miserable condition.
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