"For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions."
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"My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force."
"I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed."
"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."
"Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to."
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
"The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions."
"I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective."
"America is the only country ever founded on a creed."
"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds."