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[[File:820px-Mahatma-Gandhi, studio, 1931.jpg|thumb|Studio photograph of Mohandas K. Gandhi, London, 1931]] | [[File:820px-Mahatma-Gandhi, studio, 1931.jpg|thumb|Studio photograph of Mohandas K. Gandhi, London, 1931]] | ||
'''Satyagraha''' [Skt.]: pressure for social and political reform through cheerful nonviolent resistance practiced by Mohandas K. Gandhi and his followers. As he defined it: | '''Satyagraha''' [Skt.]: pressure for social and political reform through cheerful nonviolent resistance practiced by [[Mohandas K. Gandhi]] and his followers. As he defined it: | ||
<blockquote>Truth (''satya'') implies love, and firmness (''agraha'') engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force ... that is to say, the force which is born of truth and love or nonviolence.<ref>M. K. Gandhi, ''Satyagraha in South Africa'' (Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Trust, 1968), p. 107.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Truth (''satya'') implies love, and firmness (''agraha'') engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force ... that is to say, the force which is born of truth and love or nonviolence.<ref>M. K. Gandhi, ''Satyagraha in South Africa'' (Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Trust, 1968), p. 107.</ref></blockquote> | ||