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 654 NON-CO-OPERATION

that are absolutely necessary for a man to breathe the oxygen of liberty. And if there is any authority in this country that wants to crub the freedom of speech and freedom of association. I want to be able to say, in your name, from this platform, that that authority will perish and that authority will have to repent before an India that is steeled with high courage, noble purpose and determination till every man and woman who chose to call themselves Indians are blotted out of the earth. Jt combines courage and humility. God only knows, if I could possibly have advised you to go to the Round Table Conference, if I could possibly have advised you not to undertake this resolution of civil disobedience, I would have done so. I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. I do ,iiot want the peace that you find in stone. I do not want the peace that you find in grain. But I do want that ,peace which you find embedded in the human breast, which is exposed to the arrows of a whole world but which is protected from all harm by the Almighty Power of the Almighty God.

I do not want to take any more time of the delegates, I do not want to say a word more. I do not want to insult your intelligence by saying a word more in connexion with this resolution in English.

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