"Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme."
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"Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention."
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"In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed."
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"Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed."
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"There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men."
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"I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart."
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"I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman."
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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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"Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money."
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"Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property."
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"I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour."
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"The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility."
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"People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war."
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"Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet."
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"We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator."
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"It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings."
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"Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times."
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"I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial."
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"India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War."
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