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“The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.”

Force Violence Journey Example Amount India Train Boards Pleasant Consideration Politeness Unspoken Implied

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.”

Has Beens Home Three Voice Violence Kings India Murder Our Time Drs Luther Outstanding Dr Martin Luther King El Salvador Against Violence

Book:Speaking up

Source: Speaking up

“Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!”

Ideas Form Violence India Governance Non Violence

Author:Narendra Modi

“India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.”

Suffering Violence India Retaliation

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.”

Facts Might Progress Violence India Checks Disorder Pace

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.”

Violence India Borders

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.”

Today Cities Violence Type India Nonviolence Fragrance Cowardly Stink

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.”

Motivation Path Violence Gun India Unity Brotherhood Shed Goodwill

Author:Narendra Modi

“If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.”

Ifs Way Nations Race Violence India Non Violence Torches

Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.”

Country Values Violence Higher India Substitutes Cowardice Emphasis Pacifist

Author:Subramanian Swamy

“When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.”

“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj”

Different Self Use Felt Known Violence Higher Weapons India Bravery Protection London Contact Indian Remedy Impressed Zeal Anarchist Civilisation Misguided Self Protection

Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.”

“Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.”

“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 dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.”

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace