"Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive."
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"I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders."
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"Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress."
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"My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise."
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"It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind."
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"If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task."
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"I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants."
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"I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India."
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"Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible."
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"I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her."
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"My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe."
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"I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India."
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"The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads."
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"I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India."
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"India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel."
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"Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel."
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"The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India."
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"For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence."
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"My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit."
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"I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?"
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