Answer to Question #267387 in History for Kelsey Jand

Question

Read, highlight, and comment on the following excerpt:

I have therefore ventured to place before India the ancient law of self-sacrifice.  For satyagraha (Gandhi’s doctrine) and it’s offshoots, non cooperation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.  The risbis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.  They were themselves greater warriors than Wellington.  Having themselves known use of arms (weapons), they realized their uselessness, and taught a weary world that its salvation lay not through violence but nonviolence.

Answer 1

This is an article about Gandhian view On Non-Violence on the Doctrine of The Sword. There is truth in this excerpt because Gandhi himself said often that he could teach nonviolence to a violent person but not to a coward and that true nonviolence came from renouncing violence, not by not having any to renounce. This is the meaning of his quote "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.