Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth."
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Satyagraha
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Mahatma Gandhi
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"Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within."
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"My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate."
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"In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy."
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"Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being."
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"There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it."
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"The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self."
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"A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself."
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"Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life."
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"Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making."
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"There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth."
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"A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan."
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"A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha."
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"A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace."
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"A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha."
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"Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it."
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"Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj."
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"I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha."
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"Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience."
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"Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it."
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"Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul."
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"In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force."
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