Violence for self defense:
(don't get it wrong only for himself not the nation because according to him all freedom fighters were misguided in defending the nation)
- “I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.” ~ CWMG, Vol. XXI, p. 132.
When freedom-fighters Bhagat Singh and Rajguru assassinated Asst Police
Superintendent Saunders,
Gandhi, in his article"The curse of assassination" in Young India, condemned the act as being "dastardly".According to him,
"the innocent police officer discharged his duty, however
disagreeable its consequences to the community".Which makes one wonder, was General Dyer of the Jalianwala Bagh massacre, too, merely discharging his duties? Is the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, brutally beaten during the "Simon go back" stir, to be put down to innocence?
- The Congress session in Guwahati, 1926, Gandhi himself said, "I have called Abdul Rashid a brother and I repeat it. I do not even regard him as guilty of Swami's murder. Guilty indeed are those who excited feeling of hatred against one another." (History of Congress, page 516, by Pattabhi Sitaramayya, a prominent Congress leader.)
Calling murderer (who was sentenced for death too) a brother is chocking of secularism.
Gandhi promoted religious extremists more than anyone else.
- gandhi had this to say in praise of mass murderers of mopla in 1921 "these are god fearing religious people defending their religion"
- During a prayer speech on June 16, 1947: “If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.” ~ Gandhi’s “The Last Phase,” Vol. II, p. 326
What may have transpired him to say such thing wasn't he the same person willing to sacrifice numerous sons of soil in war effort for British even when famine of Bengal had cost millions of lives mainly due to priority given to military over civil needs by British govt.
May be he shifted his agenda as India was on the verge of independence & his British masters absconding him behind.Best actor in history anyway.
- In "Young India" of 4th May 1921, supporting the invasion of Hindustan by Amir of Afghanistan (which had been hatched by Khilafatist leaders), Gandhi openly declared, " I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan (the savage ancestor of Taliban!) if it waged war against British government".
Yep can't support indian freedom fighters but afghanis are welcomed
Gandhi’s Support for “Purity of Race”:
- In response to the rise of white nationalist politics, which
stressed racial separation, Gandhi wrote in his Indian Opinion
of September 24, 1903
“We believe as much in the purity of race as we think
they do, only we believe that they would best serve these interests,
which are as dear to us as to them, by advocating
the purity of all races, and not one alone. We believe also
that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating
race.”- On December 24, 1903, Gandhi added this in his Indian
Opinion newspaper
“The petition dwells upon `the co-mingling of the colored
and white races.’ May we inform the members of the
Conference that so far as British Indians are concerned,
such a thing is particularly unknown. If there is one thing
which the Indian cherishes more than any other, it is the purity
of type.”
- Monday october 28,1946 Noakhali: Noakhali district of east Bengal, where Muslims outnumber Hindus 5-to-1, burned, looted and massacred gandhi had this advice to woman the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,804007,00.html?iid=chix-sphereOn Blacks and Race Relations:
- “Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.” ~ CWMG, Vol. II, p. 74
- “A Kaffir is to be taxed because he does not work enough: an Indian is to be taxed because he works too much.” ~ CWMG, Vol. III, p. 337
- “A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” ~ CWMG, Vol. I, p. 150
- Regarding forcible registration with the state of blacks: “One can understand the necessity for registration of Kaffirs who will not work.” ~ CWMG, Vol. I, p. 105
- “Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.” ~ CWMG, Vol. I, pp. 244-245
- Regarding the Hindu Theological Seminary: “I only wish that such institutions will crop up all over India and be the means of preserving the Aryan religion in its purity.” ~ CWMG, Vol. IV, p. 93
- His description of black inmates: “Only a degree removed from the animal.” He also said, “Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.” ~ CWMG, Vol. VIII, pp. 135-136
On The Holocaust
- “Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” ~ George Orwell’s “Reflections on Gandhi,” Partisan Review, Jan. 1949
- As to whether the Jews should have committed “collective sucide” by offering themselves to Hitler: “Yes, that would have been heroism.” ~ George Orwell’s “Reflections on Gandhi,” Partisan Review, Jan. 1949
On his pen-friend Adolf Hitler- To the British during WWII: “This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man.” ~ G.D. Birla’s “In the Shadow of the Mahatma,” p. 276
Gandhis autobiography quote
"I would give up the finest sons of India to save the British empire in it`s dying hour"
"We [Indians] can only be granted the responsibility of freedom once we learn to civilze ourselves first. [like the British]" Do you think it acceptable to fight for your own captors and exploiters as was done in W.W.II??? Can you logically conclude that we should lay down our lives for the same people that whipped our people, raped our women and pillaged our country? Do you regard Indian philosophy of that era so backward that we should strive to become "British" before we are granted freedom??? Why does Gandhi regard freedom not a right!!! These are just some ridicules of British History and the Gandhi hypocrisy.
Do you support the prioritizing of military over civilian and Britain's control over crop production, while a mass famine occurred in Bengal, with 3 million people starving to death in 1943?
