Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
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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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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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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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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.