Mahatma Ghandi "Quit India"

Mahatma Ghandi "Quit India"

Appeal to Logos

“Our quarrel is not with the British people, we fight their imperialism”.

"Ahimsa"

Appeals to Ethos

Appeals to Logos

"If in the present crisis the earth is being scorched by the flames of Himsa and crying for deliverance, I failed to make use of the God given talent, God will not forgive me and i shall be judged unworthy of the great gift."

Appeal to Pathos

Appeal to Ethos

"I may not hesitate and merely look on, when Russia and China are threatened."

Appeal to Logos

Appeal to Ethos

Appeals to Logos cont.

"The proposal for the withdrawal of British power did not come out of anger"

Appeal to Logos

"I know how imperfect our Ahimsa is and how far we are from the ideal..."

Background

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"In a violent struggle, a successful general has been often know to effect a military coup and to set up a dictatorship."

"A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for himself, he fights only for the freedom of his country."

"I read Carlyle’s French Resolution while I was in prison, and Pandit Jawaharlal has told me something about the Russian revolution."

Appeal to Ethos

Appeal to Logos

-British brought troops into India after India's congress declared they did not support the hostile activities taking place in Germany (WWII)

-Wanted troops to leave India

-Wanted satyagraha (independence) from British imperialism

August 8, 1942 in Bombay, on eve of "Quit India Movement"

""I have not changed in any fundamental respect. I attach the same importance to non-violence that I did then."

Appeal to Ethos

Appeal to Pathos

"I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice."

"I have faith, therefore, that if, in spite of our shortcomings, the big thing does happen, it will be because God wanted to help us by crowning with success out silent, unremitting Sadhana for the last twenty-two years."

"May be that the reins will be placed in the hands of the Parsis, for instance-as I would love to see happen-or they may be handed to some others whose names are not heard in congress today."

Appeal to Pathos

"Ours is not a drive for power but purely a non-violent fight for India's independence."

“..in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours.”

Appeals to Logos

"Let me, however, hasten to assure that I am the same Gandhi as I was in 1920."

Appeal to Logos

Appeal to Ethos

"It will be a great responsibility."

Appeal to Pathos

-Appeal to pathos

"Quit India"

“My very friendship, therefore, demands that I should try to save them from their mistakes. As I view the situation, they are on the brink of an abyss. It, therefore, becomes my duty to warn them of their danger even though it may, for the time being, anger them to the point of cutting off the friendly hand that is stretched out to help them."

“Purge ourselves of hatred”

-Mahatma Gandhi

-Wanted to help India fight for satyagraha (independence) from British imperialism

-Belived in religious tolerance

-Encouraged "civil disobedience" through boycots, hunger strikes

Appeal to Pathos