What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

8 Jun 2012

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After an exhaustive study of Mahatma Gandhi’s works, scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has written a new book about the principles of nonviolent resistance titled 'What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage'.

Finkelstein says, "I was curious to know, what did Gandhi mean by nonviolence, because, you know, on reflection, it’s not so obvious. And the first thing to say about it is Gandhi was not the kind of nonviolent pacifist that, for example, was depicted in Sir Richard Attenborough’s film…Gandhi valued nonviolence, no question about it. But he attached equal value, and in some places you could say more value, to courage."

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