"Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will."
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"A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb."
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"Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other."
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"Religions are different roads converging to the same point."
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"The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all."
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"Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will."
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"To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness."
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"Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights."
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"Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged."
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"Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses."
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"Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism."
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"For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline."
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"The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb."
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"In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise."
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"Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained."
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"Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon."
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"Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open."
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"Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle."
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"The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying."
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"All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness."
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