Gandhi inverts our usual thinking about violence—we imagine it as dramatic and sudden, but he saw that slow deprivation carries its own brutality. The insight cuts deeper than mere sympathy for the poor; he's suggesting that a society which tolerates poverty while calling itself peaceful is practicing a quiet, acceptable form of harm. When a child in a low-income neighborhood has fewer chances to learn, heal, or grow simply because of circumstances of birth, that everyday denial of possibility does violence to their future as surely as any blow. His words ask us to stop separating "real" violence from the structural kind, and to recognize that comfort built atop other people's desperation carries real moral weight.