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Mahatma Gandhi
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Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi Icon Image
Mahatma Gandhi
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Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.

Action expresses priorities.

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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

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The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

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There is no god higher than truth.

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Truth is one, paths are many.

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There's no God higher than truth.

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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.

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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

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Continue to grow and evolve.

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Be the change you want to see.

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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

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The sum of all that lives is God.

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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

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Buddhism in one long prayer.

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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