Title | Swaraj in one year |
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Publisher | Ganesh |
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Date | 1921 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 121 pages; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DS448.G35 1921 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304490~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 36 |
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Transcript | 30 MAHATMA GANDHI Banerji, who has rendered inestimable service to the country. And though we stand as poles asunder to-day, though we may have sharp differences with him, we must express them with becoming restraint. I urge non-violence in language and in deed. If non-violence is essential in our dealings with the Government, it is more essential in our dealings with our leaders. And it grieves me deeply to hear of recent instances of violence reported to have been used in East Bengal against our own people. I was pained to h ear that the ears of a man who had voted at the recent elections had been cut, and nightsoil had been thrown into the bed of a man who had stood as a candidate. Non-co-operation is never going to succeed in this way. It will not succeed unless we create an atmosphere of perfect freedom, unless we prize our opponent's liberty as much as our own. The liberty of faith, conscience, thought and action which we claim for ourselves must be conceded equally to others. Non-co-operation is a process of purification and we must continually try to touch the hearts of those who differ from us, their minds, and their emotions, hut never their bodies. Discipline and restraint are the cardinal principles of our conduct and |