Badshah Khan
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(c. 1890-1988)

Pashtun Indian political and spiritual leader
"Nonviolent Soldier of Islam"

birthdate: ?
birthplace: Utmanzai, Charsadda, British India

QUOTES

Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.

There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destruction.

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