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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.
Mahatma Gandhi -
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
Mahatma Gandhi -
At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.
Mahatma Gandhi -
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whatever I do is out of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Mahatma Gandhi