"It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India."
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"The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust."
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"Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West."
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"The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish."
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"Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness."
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"India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation."
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"An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity."
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"If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last."
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"India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it."
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"India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial."
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"India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment)."
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"India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity."
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"Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India."
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"The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India."
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"Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India."
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"Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India."
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"India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment."
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"India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination."
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"I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India."
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