[57]April 6, 1921.
[58]A few months before his imprisonment Gandhi replies to the criticisms as to "illogic" of his conduct. His critics jeer at the assistance he tendered England in South Africa and during the World War. Gandhi, in replying, does not try to evade the issue. He honestly believed, he says, that he was a citizen of the empire; it was not his business to judge the Government. He would consider it wrong for every man to look upon himself as justified in criticizing the Government. He had confidence in England's wisdom and loyalty as long as possible. The Government's aberration has destroyed his faith in it. Let the Government take the consequences! (November 17, 1921.)
[59]April 6, 1921.
[60]On the contrary, violence degrades the person who makes use of it. The Allies' violence made them like unto the Germans, whose acts they flayed, in the beginning of the war. (June 9, 1920.)
[61]The hardest fiber must melt in the fire of love. If it does not melt it is because the fire is not strong enough. (March 9, 1920.) Those joining the Satyagraha movement had to promise to disobey the laws declared by the Satyagraha committee to be unjust, to follow in the path of truth, and to abstain from all violence against the lives, persons, or property of their adversaries.
[62]March 23, 1919.
[63]This Hindustani word of Mohammedan origin means cessation of work.
[64]Delhi, incidentally, made a mistake in the date of the hartal and celebrated it March 30.
[65]April 7, 1920.
[66]Gandhi, to quiet the effervescence instead of trying to exploit it as an ordinary revolutionary leader would have done, suspended the movement on April 18.