"The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence."
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"The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence."
"Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future."
"It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways."
"Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government."
"Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field."
"Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust."
"Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful."
"Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice."
"Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power."
"Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion."
"National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being."
"Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward."
"A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting."
"Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called."
"Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years."
"No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation."
"No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation."
"We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it."
"Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom."
"No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation."