"For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen."
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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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"If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction."
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"Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it."
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"The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest."
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"I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it."
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"India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War."
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"If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world."
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"It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India."
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"The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule."
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"I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers."
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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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"If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day."
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"If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet."
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"I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj"
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"I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it."
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"India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before."
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"If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian."
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"The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged."
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"Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India."
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