A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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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.
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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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.
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
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.
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.
Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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