“I cannot understand why the Ali Brothers are going to be arr…”

“I cannot understand why the Ali Brothers are going to be arrested as the rumours go, and why I am to remain free. They have done nothing which I would not do. If they had sent a message to the Amir, I also would send one to inform the Amir that if he came, no Indian so long as I can help it, would help the Government to drive him back.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Title: Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi
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Context

Quoted in The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1969), , p. 390.

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

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