

Occasions like the present do not occur in everybody's and but rarely in anybody's life. There is no real contradiction between the present resolution and my previous writings and utterances. If at all, my emphasis on it has grown stronger. I attach the same importance to nonviolence that I did then. I have not changed in any fundamental respect. Let me, however, hasten to assure that I am the same Gandhi as I was in 1920. There are people who ask me whether I am the same man that I was in 1920, or whether there has been any change in me. I ask you to consider it from my point of view, because if you approve of it, you will be enjoined to carry out all I say. Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things, I want you to understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from which I am placing them before you.
