A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Satyagraha Shout Those Will Work

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social obligation. If one is content to know the truth himself, he does not become a votary of Satyagraha. A Satyagrahi should not only know the truth but should insist upon it in social relations. So Satyagraha is activation of truthfulness.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.