“The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
—
Mohandas Gandhi, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950) by Louis Fischer
Why I’m not a pacifist.
(via cultureofresistance)
Right, because this one quote made towards the end of his life perfectly describes his entire life’s work and philosophy. Please.
(via mohandasgandhi)
not it doesnt sum up his entire lifes work and philosophy, but it does point to the disturbing fanaticism in people who take on nonviolence not only as a tactic, to be used when effective, but as the strategy and/or goal of social change.
i used to be a professional nonviolence trainer, and i have heard sentiments like this before from people who are lauded in nonviolence circles…
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
gmm for the win. also, you know, all that anti-Black shit he said, like, throughout his entire life. but hey, don’t let it define him or anything…
(via notyourkinddear)
Will FOREVER side-eye the fuck out of him for daring to say the Jews shouldn’t have risen against the Nazis solely because violence is violence is violence regardless of context, regardless of needing to defend yourself in the face of fucking genocide. That is some problematic supremacist reinforcing bullshit and he can get the fuck out of here with his ass-kissing marginalizing pacifist bullshit.
(Source: solitaryforager, via poemsofthedead)
