"Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc."
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"Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent."
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"Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies."
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"In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop."
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"It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings."
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"I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial."
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"Violent means will give violent freedom."
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"Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power."
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"The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up."
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"One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects."
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"Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now."
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"If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place."
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"The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status."
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"An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity."
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"The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means."
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"My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill."
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"It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation."
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"I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice."
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"Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat."
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"We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle."
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