“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The question of vernaculars as media of instruction is of national importance; neglect of the vernaculars means national suicide.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart.
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
