"Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life."
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"Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love."
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"Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist."
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"For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world."
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"I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly."
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"Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices."
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"If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing."
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"One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances."
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"It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel."
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"A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child."
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"Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light."
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"The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved."
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"It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for."
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"Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness."
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"Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God."
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"Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech."
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"Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world."
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"Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them."
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"It's not just words. Action expresses priorities."
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"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."
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