"Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.”
“It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.”
“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”
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“A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.”
“Freedom is never free.”
“He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael”
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“Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.”
“A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.”
“In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.”