As I proceeded further and further with my inquiry into the atrocities that had been committed on the people, I came across tales of Government’s tyranny and the arbitrary despotism of it’s officers such as I was hardly prepared for, and they filled me with deep pain. What surprised me then, and what still continues to fill me with surprise, was the fact that a province that had furnished the largest number of soldiers to the British Government during the war, should have taken all these brutal excesses lying down.

Mathatma Gandhi
An autobiography. The story of my experiments with Truth. There are many versions but I have this one.
[H/T to Ry who has the background on another, more famous quote, from Gandhi. Gandhi is no stranger to my QOTD posts either:

• QOTD October 8, 2007
• QOTD June 30, 2007
• QOTD December 18, 2006
• QOTD September 11, 2005
• QOTD July 8, 2005
• QOTD June 30, 2005
• QOTD April 5, 2005
• QOTD December 20, 2004

--Joe]