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Published in Young India on 15 November 1920, as documented in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 21, p. 252. The declaration appeared during the Non-Cooperation Movement, when Gandhi was mobilizing millions of Indians to withdraw from British institutions through nonviolent resistance. The distinction — willing to die but not to kill — was not rhetoric but the operational definition of Satyagraha (truth-force): the willingness to accept suffering without inflicting it was what distinguished nonviolent resistance from mere passive submission and from political violence alike.