词汇 | satyagraha |
词源 | satyagraha. Literally meaning “a grasping for truth” in Hindi, this Indian word has come to stand for the nonviolent “passive resistance” of Mohandas Gandhi, which the Mahatma prac- ticed until his assassination in 1948 and which has been emu- lated by many other great leaders since then. |
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