Thomas MertonThe cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68
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Mahatma Gandhi considered the price to be paid for liberty to be the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. If you’ve ever wondered why he was so opposed to the idea of violence, it’s because he believed that without peaceful means, there can never be liberty. And, if you haven’t wondered why he felt this way, well, you should. His experience in South Africa was a reminder of what can happen when people are allowed to take their anger out on others. No one is free if someone else is not free.
Source: Gandhi On Nonviolence
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