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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.
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I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for the risbis (holy people) and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute... The dignity of a man requires obedience to a higher law to the strength of the spirit.
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Let me not be misunderstood. Strength doesn’t come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. A definite forgiveness would therefore mean a definite recognition of our strength... We feel too downtrodden not to be any and revengeful. But I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. We have better work to do, a better mission to deliver to the world.
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But I believe that non-violence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adornes a soldier. But abstinence (from violence) is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature. A mouse hardly forgives a cat when it allows itself to be torn to pieces by her.
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Question: What is their view on the use of violence?
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During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
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How many more Sharpevilles would there be in the history of our country? And how many more Sharpevilles could the country stand without violence and terror becoming the order of the day? And what would happen to our people when that stage was reached? In the long run we felt certain we must succeed, but at what cost to ourselves and the rest of the country? And if this happened, how could black and white ever live together again in peace and harmony? These were the problems that faced us, and these were our decisions.
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… Already scores of Africans had died as a result of racial friction. In 1920 when the famous leader, Masabala, was held in Port Elizabeth jail, twenty-four of a group of Africans who had gathered to demand his release were killed by the police and white civilians. In 1921, more than one hundred Africans died in the Bulhoek affair. In 1924 over two hundred Africans were killed when the Administrator of South-West Africa led a force against a group which had rebelled against the imposition of dog tax. On 1 May 1950, eighteen Africans died as a result of police shootings during the strike. On 21 March 1960, sixty-nine unarmed Africans died at Sharpeville.
