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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

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Independence, Territory, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

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Brother, Mean, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

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Dumb, Salt, India

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

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Community, India, Finals

Idleness is the great plague of India.

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India, Plague, Idleness
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

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India, Sin, Shame
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

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Ambitious, Village, Proof

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

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Home, Broken, Rays
Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

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Organization, Village, Form
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi”

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

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Soul, Intellectual, Satisfaction
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

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Life, Shadow, Fleeting
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

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Life, Brother, Sacrifice
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.41, Rajpal & Sons

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

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Love, Self, Suffering
Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

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Love, Country, Race

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

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Love, Long, My Friends
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

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Prayer, Men, World
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.96, Rajpal & Sons

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

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Men, Thinking, Mankind

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

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Destiny, Men, Makers

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

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Country, Hurt, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

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Passion, Mind, Mastery
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

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Prayer, Heart, Lips
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

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Religion, Cowardice, Force

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

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Religious, Religion, Physicians
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

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Religion, Travesty, Inferiors
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

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Writing, Thinking, May
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.165, A&C Black