"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
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"Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain."
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"Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
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"What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?"
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular."
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"I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition."
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"To give one's heart is to give all."
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"The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise."
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"I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart."
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"Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth."
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"Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives."
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving."
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"If you want to change the world, be that change."
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"In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties."
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"My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way."
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"The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal."
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"Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on."
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"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."
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"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."
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"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
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