"Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering. He admits of no exception to whittle down this great and divine law of love. He applies it to all the problems that trouble mankind."
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Introduction to the publication of Tolstoy's A Letter to a Hindu, Indian opinion, 25 December, (1909)
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Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948
indischer Volksführer
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