"Civil disobedience does not admit of any..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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“A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.”
“I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.”
“Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.”
More on Civil Disobedience
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
“If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.”
“If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”
More on Nonviolence
“I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.”
“We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.”
“Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.”