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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.