"Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help."
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"It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means."
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"The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents."
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"Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English."
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"A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind."
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"My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak."
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"Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister."
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"My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise."
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"The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience."
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"Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice."
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"Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life."
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"Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence."
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"Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice."
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"Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj."
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"My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform."
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"Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit."
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"He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result."
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"By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him."
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"If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed."
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"The end is inherent in the means."
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