The Essential Gandhi (2012)
“Logically, therefore, he would have pressed for a boycott of the courts, schools and government jobs and titles. But the Gandhians had grown discouraged during his absence in jail. Boycotts involved tremendous personal sacrifice which few could bear. Gandhi accordingly withdrew from Indian politics for several years. Self-Rule, he believed, depended on how good India was, not how bad the British were.] … I contemplate a mental and therefore a moral opposition to immoralities. I seek entirely t...o blunt the edge of the tyrant’s sword not by putting up against it a sharper-edged weapon, but by disappointing his expectation that I would be offering physical resistance. The resistance of the soul that I should offer instead would elude him. It would at first dazzle him and at last compel recognition … which … would not humiliate him but uplift him. It may be urged that this … is an ideal state. And so it is.…1 … My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of a tyrant.MoreLess
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