An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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Non-Violence in Peace & War (1962) Vol. 2, edited by Mahadev Haribhai Desai, p. 144Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma)
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