"No one can ride on the back..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.”
“Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.”
“A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”
More on Oppression
“Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.”
“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.”
“In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.”
More on Resistance
“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.”
“That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.”