ABSTRACT
Gandhi makes clear that to achieve true freedom, no price is too great, including death, insisting that non-violent struggle requires the greatest personal courage. While awaiting a Gandhian Moment, we must grow sensitive to the potentialities of the human Spirit, in the renunciation of violence as a political instrument, and the engagement in struggle for the sake of justice. If the Gandhian Moment is to be realized, then it must encompass concerns both the violence of weapons and the violence of inequitable structures of domination and exploitation. Gandhi believed that it is a human responsibility and duty, rather than political choice, to act in the face of oppression. A kind of secular Gandhism is becoming visible in unexpected places. The retired prime minister of Malaysia, Mohamed Mahathir, delivered a stirring anti-war address to open the 13th Summit Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Kuala Lumpur on February 24, 2003.
