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My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with the truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
-Gandhi, August 30, 1939
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From my experience of hundreds, I was going to say thousands of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honor than you and I have.
-Gandhi, Young India, November 19, 1931
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Individual civil disobedience among an unprepared people and by leaders not known to or trusted by them, is of no avail, and mass civil disobedience is an impossibility.
-Gandhi, Young India, January 9th, 1930
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Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
-Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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Some of the immediate and brilliant results of modern inventions are too maddening to resist. But I have no manner of doubt that the victory of man lies in that resistance. We are in danger of bartering away the permanent good for a momentary pleasure.
-Gandhi, Young India, June 2, 1927
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The spirit of nonviolence necessarily leads to humility.
-Gandhi, Young India, January 12, 1921
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To remove the disease, we must first find the underlying cause. To find the remedy will then be a comparatively easy task.
-Gandhi, September 15, 1940
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People will never be able to live in peace with each other in towns and palaces. They will have no recourse but to resort to both violence and untruth. We can realize truth and nonviolence only in the simplicity of village life.
-Gandhi, Letter to Nehru, October, 1945
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
-Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
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Unity among the different races and the different communities belonging to different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
-Gandhi, The Collected Works, Volume 26
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Nonviolence Daily is a thought-for-the-day from Gandhi with a short and inspiring commentary from Professor Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence.