“In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-Violence in Peace and War (1948); also in Gandhi on Non-violence: Selected Texts from Mohandas K. Gandhi's Non-Violence in Peace and War (1965) edited by Thomas Merton
1940s

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