"No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards."
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Mahatma Gandhi quotes (page 120 of 159)
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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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"I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?"
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"If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?"
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"For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen."
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"To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership."
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"The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else."
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"I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians."
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"That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach."
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"If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity"
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"The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves."
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"If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world."
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"Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also."
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"On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth."
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"If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction."
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"That which impels man to do the right thing is God."
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"Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar."
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"Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?"
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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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