Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

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• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

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• Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

  

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• In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.

  

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• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Challenge
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Stimulation