"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."
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"Simplicity is the essence of universality."
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"Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before."
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"No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal."
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"I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity."
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"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."
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"Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry."
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"I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone."
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"You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees."
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."
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"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts."
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"Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies."
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"Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul."
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"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature."
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"Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant."
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"One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable."
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"Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God."
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"Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral."
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