"Let us learn from the English rulers..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
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“Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.”
“The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.”
“God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?”
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“A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.”
“Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.”
“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”
More on Injustice
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“To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”