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Gandhi on self-rule

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Politics of Power and Power, and the Politics of Power and Politics

You have to be really self-deceived not to know that when you're beating someone with a stick, what you are doing is using oppressive physical force. But there are often all sorts of people in whose name this is being done. In the case of Gandhi and the British, it was in part to try and shock the British in India,. Martin Luther King's campaign against racial oppression in the American South was only in part designed to shame people in the South.

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