I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.

D.H. Lawrence

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Topic

Man and animals Self-pity

Author

D.H. Lawrence

Source

Self-Pity Pansies

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Lawrence, D.H. "Self-Pity." Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929, I. 1-2.

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic
Civil disobedience Fighting injustice
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Mahatma Gandhi
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Statement made at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 23 Mar. 1922, Ahmadabad, India.

Current Citation

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams (novelist)

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Topic
Animal cruelty Man and animals Interconnectedness of all things

Author

John Williams (novelist)
Source
Butcher's Crossing
Medium
Novel
Genre
Western fiction Western
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.