"If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place."
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"To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj."
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"We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful."
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"No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing."
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"So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj."
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"Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today."
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"Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task."
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"Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations."
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"Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits."
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"Everyone holds a piece of the truth."
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"No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent."
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"There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good."
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"Find yourself by losing yourself for others."
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"... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself."
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"Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out."
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"Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue."
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"I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself."
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"A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare."
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"The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence."
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"I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause."
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