Ghandi Quotes On Fighting Tyranny

Assorted | May 5 2005

"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."

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"Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realize that they need not fear brute force, if they would but know the soul within."

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

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"Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lie not in hatred but in justice, if not in love."

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"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."

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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win."