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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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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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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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There is no god higher than truth.
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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
Mahatma Gandhi