"Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence."
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"You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth."
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"My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth."
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"God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth."
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"All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation."
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"The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth."
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"Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near."
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"No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them."
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"I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed."
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"On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth."
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"Earth and heaven are in us"
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"My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face."
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"I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible."
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"Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out."
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"There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth."
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"Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal."
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"Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different."
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"Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt."
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"I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth."
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"I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself."
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