“"When there is only a choice between cowardice and violence,…”

“"When there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence… I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than to remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour."”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Title: Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi
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Young India, 11 August 1920, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 21, p. 133.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

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