From QUIT INDIA
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
August 8, 1942
Then, there is the question of your attitude towards the
British. I have noticed that there is hatred towards the British
among the people. The people say they are disgusted with their
behavior. The people make no distinction between British
imperialism and the British people. To them, the two are one. This hatred would even make them welcome the Japanese. It
is most dangerous. It means that they will exchange one
slavery for another. We must get rid of this feeling. Our quarrel
is not with the British people, we fight their imperialism. The
proposal for the withdrawal of British power did not come out of anger. It came to enable India to play its due part at the present
critical juncture. It is not a happy position for a big country like
India to be merely helping with money and material obtained
willy-nilly from her while the United Nations are conducting the war. We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and valor, so. long as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made
enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of
hatred. Speaking for myself, I can say that I have never felt any
hatred. As a matter of fact, I feel myself to be a greater friend of
the British now than ever before. One reason is that they are
today in distress. My very friendship, therefore, demands that I should try to save them from their mistakes. As I view the
situation, they are on the brink of an abyss. It, therefore, becomes my duty to warn them of their danger even though it
may, for the time being, anger them to the point of cutting off
the friendly hand that is stretched out to help them. People may laugh, nevertheless that is my claim. At a time when I may have to launch the biggest struggle of my life, I may not harbor hatred against anybody.
Drag to each example.
Identify examples of each emotional appeal in Gandhi’s speech.
logos (logic; reasoning
ethos (credibility, trust)
pathos (emotion, values)