“More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.” PeoplePoliticalResultsViolenceRevolutionDiedBritishTinyGermanyIrelandSocialistEasterUprisingPolitical ViolenceBritish Rule Author:Adolf Hitler
“What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.” DoeLanguageViolenceBritishEnglish LanguageEnglishmenLeaseSenseless Violence Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.” FeelsLanguageViolenceIntelligentBritishEducatedNon Violence Author:Raj Thackeray
“Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.” WellsKindImportantCountryReasonGovernmentSufferingViolenceEuropeBritishResistanceEmpiresJailPrisonerFollowersBritish EmpireBritish Government Author:Nicholson Baker
“Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.” IfsWorldMadeSaidFactsUseUsedFightingStrongForceViolencePositionWeaponsBritishBombsAtomsConventionalAdoptedRealisedHelplessnessNon ViolenceDiscardedPotencyAtom Bomb Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.” ThinkingEndsPoliticalActorsViolenceRepublicanOrganizationArmyBritishTerroristGenuineIrelandGrievance Author:Richard A. Falk