Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-Malatolerate and respect their opinion and action. It will be the duty of themajority to see to it that the minorities receive a proper hearing and are nototherwise exposed to insults.YI, 8 Dec. 1921December 15The rule of majority has a narrow application, i.e., on should yield to themajority in matters of detail. But it is slavery to be amenable to the majority,no matter what its decisions are.YI, 2 March 1922December 16Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy,individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. I, therefore,believe that the minority has a perfect right to act differently from themajority.Ibid.December 17Keep a child in cotton wools and stunt it or kill it. If you will let it develop intoa robust man, you will expose his body to all weathers teaching him how todefy them. Precisely in the same manner, a government worth the name has toshow the nation how to face deficits, bad weathers and other handicaps of lifethrough its own collective effort instead of its being effortlessly helped to liveanyhow.DD, p. 242www.mkgandhi.org Page 94