“Poverty is the worst kind of violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Quoted without reference to earlier source, time or location in A Just Peace through Transformation: Cultural, Economic, and Political Foundations for Change (1988) by the International Peace Association
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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

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