Gandhi also once said he "preferred violence to (cowardice) in the name of pacifism."Ghandi is allowed to protest but is not permitted to make salt.
I agree but fail to see the relationship to my statement which was meant to exemplify the protesting students being told they can protest but no tents and no blocking/taking buildings etc.And yet more very appropriate (and interesting) Gandhi references to preference for violence in specific and general circumstances.
The West and others have often simplified this very "not simplistic" man.
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I misunderstood. Apologies.I agree but fail to see the relationship to my statement which was meant to exemplify the protesting students being told they can protest but no tents and no blocking/taking buildings etc.
That's The British would likely not have been expelled, had Ghandi not walked to the coast with a myriad of followers gathered on the way and committed the crime of making salt. Several years back I thought of traversing the US to smoke weed on the east coast and become Pres.I misunderstood. Apologies.
In the Democracy Now post I placed here today, I believe if memory serves me, is a story re. a pro-Israel protestor sidling up to the non-violent pro-Palestinian protest at a campus and hollering, "KILL THE JEWS!!" as an obvious set-up.That's The British would likely not have been expelled, had Ghandi not walked to the coast with a myriad of followers gathered on the way and committed the crime of making salt. Several years back I thought of traversing the US to smoke weed on the east coast and become Pres.