Strength Does Not Come From Physical

From Gandhi's essay "The Doctrine of the Sword," published in Young India (1920); also included in Gandhi: Selected Writings edited by Ronald Duncan (Courier Corporation, 2005, p. 54). Gandhi wrote the essay to address a recurring challenge from critics who argued that nonviolence was only the philosophy of the weak. His response was to redefine strength entirely: the capacity to endure suffering, resist provocation, and maintain moral purpose in the face of superior physical force required, he argued, a far greater degree of will and courage than any act of violence.