“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.”
"A Word of Explanation" on his work Hind Swaraj (1908) in Young India (January 1921)
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