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WORLD PEACE
The world is at a crucial stage. It is at cross roads, facing a crisis the like of which we have never seen before. Along with others, the believer in nonviolence is deeply concerned about establishing peace in the world. He knows that the only peace which can endure and be worthy of the name is based on justice. The means must be consistent with the ends. As a matter of fact, there is no way to peace. Peace is itself the way, and it is only as we explore it, practise it, try to incarnate it and if necessary lay down our lives for that way, that we shall some day reach the peace that all men seek. To restore faith, to unloose what was once described by the word love, to enable the moral and spiritual forces of the universe to work through us, this is far and above the most important thing for any of us to-day.
To break with violence, suspicion, distrust and hatred in a world gone mad with those passions, to show in our lives that we trust and commit all that is most precious to us to those same moral and spiritual forces, nothing else is as important and necessary for us today. Were we to do so in sufficient numbers, there might be established a rock upon which politicians and statesmen could build for the elimination of war and the realization of peace. It has become abundantly clear now that unless the minds and spirits of men are cleansed, wars will not be abolished and the menace of destruction will continue to hang dangerously over the head of mankind. Gandhi's teachings have moved men to noble deeds and have improved the quality of life. They have brought
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