"A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women"
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"In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?"
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"Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help."
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"God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable."
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
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"My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak."
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"My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive."
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"Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training."
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"If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence."
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"Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience."
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"Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation."
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"Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it."
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"Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it."
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"If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken."
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"Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health."
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"The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women."
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"Man does not live by destruction."
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"Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount."
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"The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else."
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"He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does."
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