Mahatma Gandhi · Politics
For Gandhi, <em>ahimsa</em> - nonviolence - was not merely a tactic for protests but a total commitment to do no harm in thought, word, and deed: the active, positive force of love standing against the whole machinery of cruelty.
You learned that ahimsa is not just the absence of violence but the active presence of love. Explain in your own words why Gandhi thought mere non-killing was not enough.
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