“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Young India (12 March 1931), p. 31 http://books.google.com/books?id=1HZDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Freedom+is+not+worth+having+if+it+does+not+connote+freedom+to+err%22&pg=PA31#v=onepage
1930s
Context: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

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