"A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind."
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"Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry."
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"The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation."
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"The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility."
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"Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses."
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"The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof."
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"In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil."
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
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"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation"
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"A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can."
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"Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many."
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"My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these."
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"I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics."
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"God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance."
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"The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran."
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"I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me."
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"Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place."
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"I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation."
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"My religion has no geographical limits."
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"The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time."
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