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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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