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Leo Tolstoy

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It is to Tolstoy whom Mahatma Gandhi gave credit for his own first understanding of nonviolent resistance to oppression, and there is an unbroken lineage from Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King.
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"Brief biography" at Masterpiece Theatre (PBS)

 
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