"Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence."
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"To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves."
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"The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms."
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"Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence."
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"Be truthful, gentle, and fearless."
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"Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines."
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"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
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"Nothing is impossible for pure love."
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"As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist"
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"I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving."
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"One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth."
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"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."
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"The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions."
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"Good government is no substitute for self-government."
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"A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy."
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"We must become the change we want to see."
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"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
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"In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character."
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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
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"Full effort is full victory."
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