"Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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“The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each”
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“No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.”
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“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.”