"Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."
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"A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace."
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"My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight."
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"I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for."
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"A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa."
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"Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?"
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"I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures."
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"A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting."
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"If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase."
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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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"Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment."
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"The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint."
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"My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention.""
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"Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme."
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"Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you."
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"I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India."
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"Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?"
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"Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
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"The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying."
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"The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be."
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