"Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness."
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"India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation."
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"An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity."
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"An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity."
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"If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last."
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"India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it."
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"India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial."
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"India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages."
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"India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment)."
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"India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity."
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"Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion."
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"The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu."
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"The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct."
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"Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society."
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"Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities."
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"Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth."
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"The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means."
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"No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism."
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"Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only."
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"Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed."
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