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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

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Influence, Hinduism, Poor

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

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Hinduism, Idolatry, Ideals
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

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Hatred, Islam, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

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Hinduism, Untouchability, Purification

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

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Penance, Hinduism, Untouchability
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

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Growth, Morbid, Hinduism

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

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Religious, Illustration, Literature
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

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Race, Unity, Different
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.202, Oxford University Press

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

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Dining, Hinduism, Restriction
Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

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Soul, Violence, Heat

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

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Facts, Nonviolence

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

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Strong, Passion, Creeds
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.115, Penguin Books India

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

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Faces, Force, Hostile
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.312, Grove Press

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

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Miracle, Velocity, Active
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.311, Grove Press

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

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Law, Violence, Brutes
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

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Weather, Missions, Pursue

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

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Men, Healthy, Blind

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

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

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

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Islam, Criticism, Unreasonable
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

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Evil, Tolerance, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

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Essence, Sobriety, Moderation
Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

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Debtors, Birth, Our Lives
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

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Dream, Errors, Needs

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

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Suffering, Politics, Born
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

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Buddhism, Religion, Islam
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.104, Rajpal & Sons