Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.s3.14

c5.s3.14

All questions cannot await the next elections nor can a government be over-thrown on the basis of local grievances, which for sections of the people may be questions of life and death. The denial of the right of *satyagraha* would mean unresisting submission to tyranny for long stretches of time.²⁸