"Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence."
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"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep."
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"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
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"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village."
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
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"Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen."
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"All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names."
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"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
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"Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change."
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"The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism."
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
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"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
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"The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes."
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"An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it."
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"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress."
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
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"Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected."
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"It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray."
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"Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking."
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