"Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?"
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"This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed."
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"Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty."
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"Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'"
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"In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant."
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"It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government."
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"My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya."
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"For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity."
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"How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man."
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"A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing."
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"Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West."
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"It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance."
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"Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth."
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"No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will."
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"Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices."
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"The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head."
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"The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man."
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"Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated."
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"Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning."
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"Literacy in itself is no education."
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