-> "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history
-> will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as
-> the blackest."
-> -- Mahatma Gandhi "Gandhi, An Autobiography", M. K. Gandhi, page 446
 JP> I've been looking for the EXACT quote to add to my file.  Thanks muchly!
You might want to add this one, as well (cited in Saul D. Alinsky's _Rules
_for _Radicals, p39)
 
... It has been stated that if he [Gandhi & the rebels] had had the guns
he might have used them; this statement is based on the Declaration of
Independence of Mahatma Gandhi issued on January 26, 1930, where he discussed
"the fourfold disaster to our country."  His fourth indictment against the
British reads: "Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly,
and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly
effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot
look after ourselves, or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or
even defend our homes and families ..."  These words more than suggest
that if Gandhi had had the weapons for violent resistance and the people
to use them this means would not have been so unreservedly rejected as the
world would like to think. ...
 
Gandhi's "non-violence" was not a passive submission to the tyrant, whether
a large one or a small one.  
--- Maximus 3.01
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