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Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
M K Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
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Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.
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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
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It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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