"A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others."
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"By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English."
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"It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it."
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"Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world."
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"The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it."
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"My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken."
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"The common factor of all religions is nonviolence."
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"We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action."
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"You can only have lasting peace based on justice."
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"Democracy and violence can ill go together."
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"It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners."
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"Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed."
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"Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results."
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"Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort."
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"Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion."
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"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
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"All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service."
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"It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend."
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within."
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"There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
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