"There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering."
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"A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle."
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"The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion."
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"I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth."
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"A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy."
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"A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong."
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"A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope."
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"A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still."
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"For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence."
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"My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform."
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"Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth."
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"I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions."
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"Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc."
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"The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months."
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"If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages."
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"If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker."
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"Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth."
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"Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth."
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"Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth."
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"What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth."
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