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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
Mahatma Gandhi