"The first condition of nonviolence is justice..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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“It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.”
“The end is inherent in the means.”
“I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.”
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“The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.”
“I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.”
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”
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“We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.”
“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.”
“Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.”