Question

Explain gandhis opinion on cowardice and non violence?

Answer 1

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"My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice," he said in 1924. The he added that "non-violence is the summit of bravery."

Nine years later in 1935, he wrote this: "Non-violence cannot be taught to a person who fears to dice and has no power of resistance."

And this is what Gandhi said in 1939, as the struggle was peaking: "For I cannot in any case tolerate cowardice. Let no one say when I am gone that I taught the people to be cowards... I would far rather that you died bravely dealing a blow and receiving a blow than died in abject terror...fleeing from battle is cowardice and unworthy of a warrior... cowardice is worse than violence because cowards can never be non-violent."

This Gandhi, so different from our textbook perception of a pacifist saint, was brought forth by Norman G. Finkelstein, a professor-activist from America.

In his slim book - 'What Gandhi Says' - written after he saw the stamp of this Gandhian sort of brave nonviolence in the Arab Spring of 2011 and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US.

People from both Hindu and Muslim communities were killed in the Muzaffarnagar riots in UP.

Norman writes: "In response to local leaders who solicited his advice on how to end internecine bloodletting, Gandhi counseled: "Go in the midst of rioters and prevent them from indulging in madness or get killed in the attempt. But do not come back alive to report failure. The situation calls for sacrifice on the part of top-rankers."

Norman then says: "If a criticism is to be leveled against Gandhi's nonviolence, it is that he sets the bar of courage too high for most mortals to vault."  

Norman too has exposed the misdemeanors of the Jewish lobby in America through his writings despite being a Jew whose parents died in a Nazi concentration camp. And he paid the price too, though ostracisation in the academic community.

He writes this in the introduction: "The real Gandhi did loathe violence but loathed cowardice more than violence... If Gandhi preached simultaneously nonviolence and courage, it was believed he believed that nonviolence required more courage than violence."

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Gandhi ji had different opinion about non violence and cowardice

according to him if the cause is true and struggle is against injustice then there is no any need of violence but it doesnt mean that people will work cowardly .They should raise their voice against wrong rule and regulation.They believed in satyagraha with mind in calm manner .Gandhi ji was completely devoted to non violence

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