famous quotes

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by Mahatma Gandhi:

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.  (attributed to M. Gandhi)

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

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Einstein on Gandhi:

• «I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time.» (source)

• "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as Gandhi ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."(source)

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by Martin Luther King Jr. :
  

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. 

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