The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

We traced this line directly to Gandhi's own weekly journal *Young India*, dated 4 June 1931, as preserved in the official *Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi* (Vol. 52, p. 184) on the Gandhi Heritage Portal, where the sentence appears in his published statement almost verbatim, allowing only for routine punctuation differences. This is a primary source authored by the credited person, not merely aggregator circulation, and it settles the question of origin. Independent book evidence reinforces the attribution: the line is credited to Gandhi in serious published works such as Judith Belmont's *The Therapist's Ultimate Solution Book* (2015) and multiple civil-services ethics compendia, all consistent with the 1931 dating. We found no credible competing author, no documented earlier appearance under another name, and no genuine scholarly dispute, so neither "disputed" nor "misattributed" applies. With a traceable primary source in Gandhi's own journal, this quotation is verified.