Gandhi's Truth Quotes

“No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“And yet the sternness sometimes displayed in your letters to your children bespeaks an appalling sense of doom, as if they, as the product of your sin, had no chance for salvation except as partners in your renunciation.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“If some busybody were to cross-examine me on the chapters already written, he could probably shed much more light on them, and if it were a hostile critic’s cross-examination, he might even flatter himself for having shown up [make the world laugh by revealing] the hollowness of many of my pretensions.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“And as was Gandhi’s wont, he would not only insist on hygienic and social restraints but would preach to this group the basic ethical rules for the forthcoming march: None was to touch any one’s property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“None was to touch any one’s property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“Within two weeks Gandhi and his friends (old Muslim merchants in carriages and young Christians on foot) had collected ten thousand signatures which were affixed to a petition sent to the Colonial Secretary.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“For both Indians and whites were outnumbered ten to one by hundreds of thousands of Natal Zulus. The Indians, of course, considered themselves to be closer to the whites than to the blacks, both as descendants of an ancient civilization and as adherents to three world religions. But to the whites they were nonwhites and therefore a cultural and political wedge for the masses of blacks. And as everywhere, it was the poorer whites, the petty white traders, and even white labor, whose fears were most vociferous, while the wealthy and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming. The law, of course, reflected the sense of threat shared by the majority of whites and had long since begun to control all nonwhites in a web of demeaning police ordinances.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“The law, of course, reflected the sense of threat shared by the majority of whites and had long since begun to”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence