Consider the following statement quot Non violence is the law of our species as violence is the law ...........

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Consider the following statement: "Non-violence is the law of our species, as violence is the law of the brute", but “where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence”. Mahatma Gandhi made the above-given statement in which of his following literary works?

The Hind Swaraj

The Young India

The Indian Opinion

The Harijan

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Explanation:

Option (b) is correct:
In Gandhi?s eyes, non-violence was not a weapon of the weak and the cowardly. Only the strong and the brave could practise it.
Even violence was preferable to cowardice. In a famous article in his weekly journal, Young India, he wrote in 1920 that "Non-violence is the law of our species, as violence is the law of the brute", but “where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence,
I would advise violence, I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour, than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour.