"Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood."
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
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"Your future depends on what you do today."
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"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
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"People cannot hurt you without your permission."
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
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"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."
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"If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present"
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"Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'"
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"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness."
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"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
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"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
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"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization."
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"If untouchability lives, humanity must die."
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"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect."
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"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian."
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"You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul."
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