"The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom."
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"If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way."
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"It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?"
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"We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn."
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"The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity."
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"My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh."
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"Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage."
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"Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making."
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"A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat."
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"My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love."
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"Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind."
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"How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?"
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"I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself."
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"The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme."
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"It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves."
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"Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate."
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"The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat."
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"The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj."
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"Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts."
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"When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts."
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