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• A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Connections, Wanted

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• I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfect, Failing, Enough

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Names, Two

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• No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Giving, Police

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Enemy

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• A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Helping, Offers, Depends

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (2009). “The essence of Hinduism”

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• A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Infinite

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• Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Causes, Incompetence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Warfare, May, Causes

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• I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Assembly, Substitutes, Constructive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Circles, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.141, Hackett Publishing

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• Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Resistance, Universal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Strong, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Fasting, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually 'Sarvodaya' or the 'rise of all'. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Numbers, Growth, Saws

  "Celebrating 100 years of Satyagraha". www.dnaindia.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Expression, Atmosphere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Real, Lying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

  Philip Glass

  Mean, Names, Fifty

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tired, Lasts, Thrive

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• In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Praise, Carrie, Imprisonment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Helping, Depends

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Satya, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Ends, Civil Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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