"The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa."
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"Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule."
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"It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment."
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"Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought."
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"We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India."
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"However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India."
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"I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term."
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"To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour."
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"Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near."
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"I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj."
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"Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man."
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"An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world."
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"We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are."
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"There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom."
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"Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation."
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"Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses."
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"Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister."
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"Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause."
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"God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?"
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"A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this."
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