#SrinivasaRamanujan

“When India's freedom struggle needed proof that nonviolence could work anywhere — not just among people the British called "meek" — the proof came from the Pashtuns of the frontier, a people bound by a code of revenge, drilled into an unarmed army by a giant who then spent more years in the prisons of Pakistan than he ever spent in the prisons of the Raj.”

“Nonviolence is not weakness dressed up as virtue — it is discipline harder than soldiering, and he proved it by making a hundred thousand men from the most heavily armed society in South Asia swear never to strike back, and watching them keep the oath under machine-gun fire.”