"True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence."
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"Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy."
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"I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it."
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"Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation."
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"My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called."
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"My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world."
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"I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate."
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"Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility."
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"If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence."
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"A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within."
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"Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity."
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"If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself."
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"It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart."
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"The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom."
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"Violence is the fear to other's ideals."
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"Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has."
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"There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
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"I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling."
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"We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races."
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"Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains."
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