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Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Praying, Advent
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

Mahatma Gandhi
Firsts, Temples, Purity
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Mahatma Gandhi
Tree, Religion, Details

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Teaching, Essence
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Different, Different Roads
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ties, Religion, Body
Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Should
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Mahatma Gandhi
Taught Us, Evil, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Balance, Income
Mahatma Gandhi (1954). “How to Serve the Cow”

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Mahatma Gandhi
House, Religion, Cloaks
Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Mahatma Gandhi
Acceptance, Opposites, Two
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.163, Tara Publishing

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

Mahatma Gandhi
Failing, Appeals
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Mahatma Gandhi
Harmony
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Countrymen
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice, Self, Murder
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works”

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Mahatma Gandhi
Death, Soldier, Welcome
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

Mahatma Gandhi
Death, Party, Thinking
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Mahatma Gandhi
Death, Men, Fearless
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.40, Penguin Books India

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Mahatma Gandhi
Death, Shadow, Valleys
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Mahatma Gandhi
War, Mean, Knives
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Mahatma Gandhi
Average, Democracy, Ifs
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.353, Rajpal & Sons

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy, Demand, Patient
Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Mahatma Gandhi
Loyalty, Democracy, Institutions
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.79, Hackett Publishing

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy, Aprons, Break
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Islam, Democracy, Spells
Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”