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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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Simplicity is the essence of universality.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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The sum total of karma is God.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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Life is greater than all art.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi