मेरा आजीवन कारावास / माझी जन्मठेप (स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर - काले पानी का ऐतिहासिक संस्मरण)

help being violent. And even violence or resort to terrorism ought to be only a temporary
measure. Non-cooperation cannot be a principle, it is only a remedy for the time being.
Co-operation with all and in the best interests of all is a positive doctrine. And when it
works for all and promotes the good of all, and is acted upon, according to time and
circumstance, it is rightly described as responsive cooperation."
I had pointed out even then to my fellow-prisoners how far this chameleon would
go, what would be the extent of its jump. I had warned them how the alliance of non-
cooperation with the Khilafat agitation was bound to end in disaster, that it was sure to
raise in the country a wave of fanaticism and plunge the whole movement into con-
flagration, with its consequences to the country too terrible to imagine. I continued
impressing the fact upon my colleagues and fellow-prisoners as long as I was in the
Andamans.
End of Chapter X