Lalitha

“and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“None was to touch any one’s property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“And as was Gandhi’s wont, he would not only insist on hygienic and social restraints but would preach to this group the basic ethical rules for the forthcoming march: None was to touch any one’s property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence