"Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion"
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"Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience."
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"God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart."
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"I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward."
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"It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends."
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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
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"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."
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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
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"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed."
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"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
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"My greatest weapon is mute prayer."
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"Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners."
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"True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all."
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"Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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"Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced."
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"It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior."
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"Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind."
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"A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority"
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"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
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