We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts. - Mahatma Gandhi

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To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

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