Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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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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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.