"Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak."
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"If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving."
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"I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst."
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"I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth."
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"I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment."
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"I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations."
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"In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village."
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"In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?"
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"Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge."
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"India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages."
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"India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise."
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"In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay."
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"The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters."
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"We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism."
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"In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity."
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"The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick."
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"Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life."
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"Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India."
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"I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans."
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"The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel."
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