Hind Swaraj and Selected Writings

Where nonviolent resistance became a method rather than a mood. Gandhi set out satyagraha, the force of truth, as disciplined refusal, the deliberate, organized withdrawal of cooperation from an unjust power. He took the seed from Thoreau and grew it into a campaign that freed a subcontinent, and King took it from him in turn. The bridge from the New England jail cell to the Birmingham one runs straight through these pages.

The lawyer who turned nonviolent resistance from a moral instinct into a political method capable of moving an empire. Hind Swaraj and his later writings set out satyagraha, the force of truth, as disciplined refusal rather than passive submission. He took the seed from Thoreau and grew it into a campaign that freed a subcontinent. King took it from him in turn. Few ideas have traveled so far and changed so much.