PN> HTom was heard muttering to Paul Nixon 
 HT> Young India, August 11, 1920   cited on page 156-7 of The Essential
 HT> Gandhi, by Louis Fischer.
 PN>  Cool, thanks.
 PN>      "I do believe that where there is a choice only between
 PN>      cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
There are a couple of other places with simular references, too.  Gandhi's 
"non-violence" was not at all that that is usually attributed to him today. 
... The people of a village near Bettia told me that they had run away
whilst the police were looting their homes and molesting their womenfolk.
When they said that they had run away because I had told them to be
nonviolent, I hung my head in shame.  I assured them that such was not
the meaning of my nonviolence.  I expected them to intercept the mightiest
power that might be in the act of harming those who were under their 
protection, and draw without retaliation all harm upon their own heads
even to the point of death, but never to run away from the storm centre.
It was manly enough to defend one's property, honour, or religion at the
point of the sword.  It was manlier and nobler to defend them without
seeking to injure the wrong-doer.  But it was unmanly, unnatural and
dishonorable to forsake the post of duty and, in order to save one's
skin, to leave property, honour, or religion to the mercy of the wrong-doer.
I could see my way of delivering {italic ahims\-a} [non-violence, the 
ositive
practice of love] to those who knew how to die, not to those who
were afraid of death.
 
-- Gandhiji in Indian Villages, published 1922.
 
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