"Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount."
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"For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen."
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"Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations."
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"Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God."
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"If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you."
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"It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance."
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"Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty."
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"Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed."
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"Means are ends in the making"
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"Violent means will give violent freedom."
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"Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas."
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"But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God."
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"Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing."
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"Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals."
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"India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise."
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"The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification."
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"I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience."
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"It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means."
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"The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress."
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"For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing."
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