"I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage."
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"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing."
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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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"Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English."
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"Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land."
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"Man can only describe God in his own poor language."
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"A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone."
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"My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect."
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"I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people."
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"If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?"
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"My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention.""
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"The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers."
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"Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman."
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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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"Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak."
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"What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule."
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"The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners."
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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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"The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe."
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